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Introduction: histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland

This paper introduces a special issue on ‘Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland’, situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field. Using Allan Beveridge’s claims in 1993 about the relative lack of research on the history of psychiatry in Scotla...

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Autores principales: Philo, Chris, Andrews, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X16678566
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spelling pubmed-53020682017-02-21 Introduction: histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland Philo, Chris Andrews, Jonathan Hist Psychiatry Articles This paper introduces a special issue on ‘Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland’, situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field. Using Allan Beveridge’s claims in 1993 about the relative lack of research on the history of psychiatry in Scotland, the paper reviews a range of contributions that have emerged since then, loosely distinguishing between ‘overviews’ – work addressing longer-term trends and broader periods and systems – and more detailed studies of particular ‘individuals and institutions’. There remains much still to do, but the present special issue signals what is currently being achieved, not least by a new generation of scholars in and on Scotland. SAGE Publications 2016-12-12 2017-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5302068/ /pubmed/27956649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X16678566 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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