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b) Mental Health and Society

The story of medicine and health has often been focused on physical conditions. Yet changes in our views of mental health reveal more clearly the developments in science and society. Once feared and misunderstood, today we view mental health in a similar way to physical health. This case study explores how and why these changes have occurred. Unit Plan Overview Inquiry Statement - Scientific innovation and changing...


Tags: history of mental health, mental health and society, history of psychiatry, mental asylum reform, moral treatment movement, shell shock and PTSD, historical psychiatric treatments, deinstitutionalisation, Franco Basaglia and community care, mental health stigma and human rights

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