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A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

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978-1-137-55697-4
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

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978-3-030-62792-8
Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

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978-3-030-54871-1
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe

This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

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978-3-319-59519-1
Executing Magic in the Modern Era

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

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978-3-030-54802-5
From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

This book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth ...

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978-3-319-54813-5
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People

This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). ...

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978-3-030-18685-2
Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...

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978-1-137-51361-8
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...

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978-1-137-53828-4
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...

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978-1-137-60089-9
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...

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978-3-030-69728-0
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 A Study in Policy Failure

This book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy ...

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978-3-030-19186-3
Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

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