Description: 'Curing Queers'Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935?74 Author(s): Tommy Dickinson Format: Paperback Publisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 9781784993580, 978-1784993580 Synopsis Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) 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 men and women who nursed them. It examines why the majority of the nurses followed orders in administering the treatment - in spite of the zero success-rate in 'straightening out' queer men - but also why a small number surreptitiously defied their superiors by engaging in fascinating subversive behaviours. 'Curing queers' makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of nursing and the history of sexuality, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently. It will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students in nursing, history, gender studies, and health care ethics and law. -- .
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Book Title: 'Curing Queers'
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: 'curing Queers': Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935-74
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Item Height: 216 mm
Subject: Medicine
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Author: Tommy Dickinson
Item Width: 138 mm
Series: Nursing History and Humanities
Format: Paperback
