The Man who Closed the Asylums : Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 91905948
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Verso Books
- ISBN
- 9781781689264
- 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
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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
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book resulted from lengthy research (6 years, Wellcome Trust) in a number of Italian cities (Trieste, Parma, many others). The research covered archives (psychiatric hospital, state, national, personal), newspapers, oral history (nurses, doctors, patients, journalists), government reports, secondary sources, photography, film. A considerable body of material was collected, analysed and written up. This was the first book length history of the influential Italian radical psychiatry movement, presenting a multi-layered, critical biographical, political, medical and historical account of a movement which led to asylum closure. The book has been reprinted, extensively reviewed, discussed on national TV and in literary festivals.
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- Non-English
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