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This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Introduction: Self-Harm From Social Setting To Neurobiology1. Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General And Mental Medicine2. Communicative Self-Damage: War, NHS And Social Work3. Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) And Suicide (1961) Acts4. Self-Harm As A Result Of Domestic Distress5. Self-Harm As Self-Cutting: Inpatients And Internal TensionConclusion: The Politics Of Self-Harm: Social Setting And Self-Regulation