Outpatient Clinics, Visiting Nurses and Propaganda: Spaces, Actors and Tools of Mental Hygiene in Interwar Italy

IF 0.6 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY
Marianna Scarfone
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Summary In interwar Italy, the mental hygiene movement enacted a series of measures in order to control, prevent and contain psychiatric diseases. Developing as a pillar of social medicine, mental hygiene represented a challenging outlook for the psychiatric field, as far as it filled a gap in existing assistance, providing outpatient facilities and avoiding the pitfalls of hospitalisation’s legal constraints. This article analyses the debates aimed at reforming the 1904 law on asylums and the issues at stake, as autonomy from judiciary powers and screening and follow-up in free consultations. It then examines the functioning of dispensaries that responded to these issues, the role of the visiting nurses, as well as that of propaganda deployed by the local sections of The League of Mental Hygiene. Relying on diverse case studies, it aims at reopening the debate on a controversial phase of Italian sociopolitical history through the analysis of psychiatric practices.
门诊诊所、巡回护士和宣传:战时意大利心理卫生的空间、参与者和工具
摘要 在战时的意大利,精神卫生运动颁布了一系列措施,以控制、预防和遏制精神疾病。作为社会医学的支柱,精神卫生填补了现有援助的空白,提供了门诊设施,避免了住院治疗的法律限制。本文分析了旨在改革 1904 年精神病院法的辩论,以及其中的关键问题,如司法权的自主性、免费咨询中的筛查和跟踪。然后,文章研究了应对这些问题的诊疗所的运作、巡诊护士的作用以及心理卫生联盟地方分部的宣传作用。该书以各种案例研究为基础,旨在通过对精神病学实践的分析,重新讨论意大利社会政治史上一个有争议的阶段。
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Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine 社会科学-科学史与科学哲学
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1.60
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63
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social History of Medicine , the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
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