Article ID: CBB943092784

From asylum to action in Scotland: The emergence of the Scottish Union of Mental Patients, 1971–2 (2017)

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By analysing a collection of documents authored by Thomas Ritchie, founder of the Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP), this study recounts the emergence of mental patient unionism at Hartwood Hospital, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The discourse and action employed by Ritchie and SUMP are understood and situated in relation to intended audiences, social and material conditions of the asylum space, and transformations in cultures beyond the asylum, including nascent industrial strife, social liberalism, civil rights, the London ‘underground’ and counter-cultures.

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Authors & Contributors
Taylor, Peter J.
Karin Patzke
Guillemain, Hervé
Scrimgeour, David
Knight, Helen P.
Coates, Colin M.
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Medicine and society
Mental disorders and diseases
Patients
Political activists and activism
Psychiatry
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
England
Edinburgh
Scotland
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Italy
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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