'Curing queers' : Mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74 /

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickinson, Tommy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cross-dressing.
Psychiatric nursing.
Nurse and patient.
Gay men.
Aversion therapy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
History Of Medicine.
Travestisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Homosexuels masculins > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Relations infirmiere-patient > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Therapie d'aversion > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cross-dressing > Great Britain > History.
Gay men > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Nurse and patient > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Aversion therapy > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Psychiatric nursing > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. The book begins in 1935 with the first official report on the use of aversion therapy to combat homosexual desire and continues until 1974, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its d.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9781784990626

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