Chapter 12 Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-war Britain
Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being was communicated to men, and in turn, how men conceptualised their own psy...
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| description | Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being was communicated to men, and in turn, how men conceptualised their own psychological well-being. Drawing on a range of printed primary sources and archival material, the chapter explores the medical, political and cultural context within which men and women negotiated ideas about their own well-being in post-war Britain. It argues that, for a range of complex reasons and competing exigencies, male mental health was almost entirely neglected—both reflecting and reinforcing prevailing assumptions about masculinity, coping and the image of the ‘strong, silent man’. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-681832025-01-22T14:57:12Z Chapter 12 Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-war Britain Haggett, Ali gender; men; women; mental illness thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services::MBPK Mental health services Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being was communicated to men, and in turn, how men conceptualised their own psychological well-being. Drawing on a range of printed primary sources and archival material, the chapter explores the medical, political and cultural context within which men and women negotiated ideas about their own well-being in post-war Britain. It argues that, for a range of complex reasons and competing exigencies, male mental health was almost entirely neglected—both reflecting and reinforcing prevailing assumptions about masculinity, coping and the image of the ‘strong, silent man’. 2021-04-27T02:03:07Z 2021-04-27T02:03:07Z 2021-04-26T11:57:18Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48390 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68183 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48390/1/Bookshelf_NBK538044.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48390/1/Bookshelf_NBK538044.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Preventing Mental Illness Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 24 10858/Z/15/Z open access |
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