The afterlives of the psychiatric asylum : recycling concepts, sites and memories / by Graham Moon, Robin Kearns and Alun Joseph.

The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and f...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Moon, Graham, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors:	Kearns, Robin A., 1959-, Joseph, A. E. (Alun E.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Series:	Ashgate's geographies of health series.
Subjects:	Psychiatric hospitals > History. Mentally ill > Care. Community mental health services. Deinstitutionalization. Psychiatric hospitals. History.