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Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People : Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilton, Claire.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Dramatis Personae
  • 1 Introduction: A Strange Eventful History
  • Scandals of Psychiatric Hospital Care
  • Social Justice, Pressure Groups and the Emergence of AEGIS
  • Ageism
  • Methodology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 2 Psychiatric Hospitals and Older People: Status Quo or Making Changes?
  • The Psychiatric Hospital Wards
  • Wards and Community: Getting the Balance Right
  • Research and Innovation: Challenging Medical Doctrine About Older People
  • The Government's Standpoint
  • Introducing Friern Hospital
  • Patients and Complaints at Friern
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Barbara Robb, Amy Gibbs and the 'Diary of a Nobody'
  • Barbara: An Anne of Burghwallis
  • Carl Jung, Victor White and Barbara
  • Amy Gibbs
  • 'Diary of a Nobody': Friern, Amy and Friends
  • Was Amy Mentally Ill?
  • People and Politics
  • From Private to Public
  • New Ideas in Psychogeriatrics
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Establishing AEGIS and Writing Sans Everything: 'The Case' and 'Some Answers'
  • AGEIS: Supporters and Early Activities
  • The First Friern Inquiry
  • The Outcome of Blofeld's Report
  • Action on Stripping
  • Improving, Monitoring and Maintaining Standards
  • Planning Sans Everything
  • The Witnesses and Their Statements
  • The Witnesses, Their Names, Roles and Hospitals
  • AEGIS's Advisors
  • Nazi Atrocities and Sans Everything
  • AEGIS's Distractions
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 5 Reprinted Before Publication: Plotting a Route for Sans Everything
  • The Press Paves the Way
  • The Ministry, Robinson and the Press: Planning Inquiries
  • Publication Day: 30 June 1967
  • After Publication: Secrecy, Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Other Responses in the Public Arena.
  • 'Smouldering Discontent' Elsewhere
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 6 The Inquiries: A Lion's Den
  • Friern
  • St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin
  • Storthes Hall and Springfield
  • The Other Witnesses
  • The Ministry Prepares the White Paper
  • Between Inquiries and White Paper: Barbara's Activities and the Council on Tribunals
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 7 Whitewash and After: 'Most Good Is Done by Stealth'
  • More Psychiatric Hospitals in the News
  • Announcing Findings and Recommendations, the White Paper on Sans Everything
  • The Aftermath
  • The Ely Hospital Inquiry
  • More Inquiries
  • 'The Answers' Proposed in Sans Everything: Outcomes
  • Barbara, Opponents and Allies
  • Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 8 Then and Now: Concluding Remarks
  • The AEGIS Campaign
  • Reflections on Barbara
  • Women and the AEGIS Campaign
  • After August 1974
  • Relevance to Current Practice
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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