A History of Self-Harm in Britain A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 2604
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137529626
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book was the basis of a PhD that investigated self-harm and overdosing between the 1930s and 1980s in Britain - further expanded before publication. Its source base is many hundreds of medical journal articles, police and social services records, newspaper articles and records of Parliamentary committees. It is a sustained and detailed account of the ideas and practices that made self-harm an intelligible, shifting object of analysis. It is methodologically innovative - written entirely in the present tense - and is the first to link changing ideas of self-harm with shifting political contexts from the 1950s to 1980s.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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