A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally reco…

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Psychological Classification and Diagnosis in Asylum Statistics, 1800–1948: The British Table of the Forms of Insanity By Kevin Matthew Jones. Palgrave Macmillan. March 2025. £109.99 (hb). 355 pp. ISB...

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Psychological Classification and Diagnosis in Asylum Statistics, 1800–1948: The British Table of the Forms of Insanity By Kevin Matthew Jones. Palgrave Macmillan. March 2025. £109.99 (hb). 355 pp. ISB...

To UoN Management, Casualised Language Centre staff at the University of Nottingham have been demanding the basic dignity of direct employment, including through a recent letter to management signed b...

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Dr Kevin Jones presents "Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care"

Dr Kevin Jones presents "Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care"

Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...

Dr Kevin Jones presents "Why are we still waiting for a National Social Service? Lessons from the history of health and social care"

Serafina Paladino reviews Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer’s recent edited volume Autism in Film and Television: On the Island.

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Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

This book examines questions around psychological diagnosis and asylum statistics that occupied debates from the 1840s to the mid-twentieth century.