dc.contributor.author | Dale, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-02T12:11:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although there are many excellent studies of the work of pioneer women
public health officers, few accounts dwell on mental health issues or discuss any relationship
that such staff might have understood to exist between poverty and mental health in the early
twentieth century. This is a remarkable omission considering that social and feminist historians
have highlighted the problems created by the way early practitioners sought to
manage poverty and arguably the poor. Drawing on records created by Female Sanitary
Inspectors (FSIs) in Bradford, this study chronicles distressing economic and social conditions
but also reveals encounters between the staff and people experiencing mental health problems
and mental health crises. The ways in which the FSIs chose to both make and deny
links between the abject poverty witnessed in the slum districts and cases of mental disorder
forms an important strand to the analysis that follows. Interestingly, it is the well-being of the
staff that emerges as a persistent and even over-riding concern. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was generously supported by Wellcome Trust Grant 074999. This was a personal fellowship entitled 'The Medical Officer of Health and the Organisation of Health Visiting as a Comprehensive Community Health Service, 1906-1974'. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 4, article 68 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/s41599-018-0128-2 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33646 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | Poverty and mental health: the work of the female sanitary inspectors in Bradford (c. 1901–1912) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-02T12:11:00Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Palgrave Communications | en_GB |