Bibliograph

'Curing queers', mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74, Tommy Dickinson

Type

Label

'Curing queers', mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74, Tommy Dickinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-272) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

'Curing queers'

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

952153391

Responsibility statement

Tommy Dickinson

Series statement

Nursing history and humanities

Sub title

mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74

Summary

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating 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 people who nursed them

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939 -- 1967 -- 2.Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930 -- 1959 -- 3.`Subordinate nurses' -- 4.`Subversive nurses' -- 5.Liberation, 1957 -- 1974

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