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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787609203321

Autore

Hayward Rhodri (Rhodri Lloyd)

Titolo

The transformation of the psyche in British primary care, 1880-1970 / / Rhodri Hayward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New Delhi ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014

ISBN

1-4742-1116-X

1-78093-719-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

610.941

Soggetti

Health - Psychological aspects

Medicine and psychology

Primary care (Medicine) - Psychological aspects

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. The Emergence of the Unconscious -- 2. The Healing Power of History -- 3. Social Consciousness -- 4. The Anxiety of Influence -- 5. Placebo and the Problem of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing inevitable about the current connection between health, identity and personal history. It traces the changing conception of the psyche in Britain over the last two centuries and it demonstrates how these changes were rooted in transformed patterns of medical care. The shifts from private medicine through to National Insurance and the National Health Service fostered different kinds of relationship between doctor and patient and different understandings of psychological distress. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 examines these transformations and, in so doing, provides new critical insights into our modern sense of identity and changing notions of health that will be of



great value to anyone interested in the modern history of British medicine."--Bloomsbury Publishing.