Chapters in this book
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Chapter 2 Family not to be informed?
(2021)
What are the ethics that shape or should shape engagement with historical medical data, particularly archives containing patient voices? This question has come to the fore through the ‘Men, Women and Care’ project, a ...
Chapter 1 The non-patient’s view
(2021)
Since Roy Porter’s pioneering work on the ‘patient’s view’, historians have taken up the challenge to rewrite medicine’s past ‘from below’. However, this chapter argues that they have not been radical enough and have ...
Chapter 2 Family not to be informed?
(2021)
What are the ethics that shape or should shape engagement with historical medical data, particularly archives containing patient voices? This question has come to the fore through the ‘Men, Women and Care’ project, a ...
Chapter 3 Lunatics’ rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870-1920
(2021)
This comparative study examines the emergence and political significance of lunatics’ rights activism in Europe between 1870 and 1920. In writing the history of the criticism of psychiatry, scholars have so far mainly ...