'Curing queers' : mental nurses and their patients, 1935-1974 / Tommy Dickinson.
2015
HQ76.2.G7 D53 2015
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Title
'Curing queers' : mental nurses and their patients, 1935-1974 / Tommy Dickinson.
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ISBN
9781784990626 (electronic bk.)
1784990620 (electronic bk.)
9780719095887
0719095883
1784990620 (electronic bk.)
9780719095887
0719095883
Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HQ76.2.G7 D53 2015
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015)
Series
Nursing history and humanities.
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Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939-1967
Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-1959
"Subordinate nurses"
"Subversive nurses"
Liberation, 1957-1974.
Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-1959
"Subordinate nurses"
"Subversive nurses"
Liberation, 1957-1974.