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Scotland's asylum patients and the Great War: marginalisation and commodification, c. 1914-1917
During the Great War hundreds of civilian residents of Scotland's mental hospitals were transferred to other asylums. Discover how asylums became war hospitals and what this meant for civilian patients during wartime.
Health and hierarchy: soldiers, civilians and mental healthcare in Scotland, 1914–34
Discover how mentally ill servicemen were marginalised alongside the civilian 'insane' in WW1 Scotland's mental hospitals.
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Passing the border’: the civilian and soldier patient in the Scottish asylum, 1914- 1934
During the First World War, thousands of patients were removed from Britain’s district asylums to provide injured servicemen a place to recover. This PhD thesis is the first dedicated look at the experiences of civilian and ex-service patients living together in Scotland's district asylums between 1914 and 1934.
