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Improving Psychiatric Care For Older People : Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975

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Therecould be no better qualified person to document this enlightening storythan Claire Hilton. Claire is a dedicated, talented clinician, a psychiatristworking with older people, who has for some years immersed herself in thehistory of the development of the specialty of old age psychiatry in thetwentieth century. She has illuminated the period by bringing together thecharacters and politics of the influential clinical professionals, policymakers, public health observers, press and government funders. In thisnew work, Claire has drawn on her profound understanding of the periodand, through further scrupulously detailed research, has exposed a storythat has wider implications, showing how policy makers can be easilymisled by misinformation when the truth is unpalatable. But what shehas also given us here is a cracking good read, a compelling story of onewoman’s battle tragically cut short by Robb’s too early death in 1976.

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Series Title

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Call Number

362.2 HIL p

Publisher

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan., 2017

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-54813-5

Classification

362.2

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

Mental health services

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Claire Hilton

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maya

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