Abstract:In January 1965, Barbara Robb visited seventy-three-year-old Amy Gibbs, a patient on a back ward at Friern psychiatric hospital in North London. There, Barbara stepped into the murky, hardly shifting territory of older people’s long-stay care. Shocked by what she saw, such as harshness from nurses and the patients’ uniform haircuts, institutional clothing and lack of personal possessions and occupation, Barbara set out to make improvements. Her campaign triggered a series of scandals about psychiatric hospital… Show more
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