‘From Defensive Paranoia to …Openness to Outside Scrutiny’: Prison Medical Officers in England and Wales, 1979–86

Duvall, Nicholas

doi:10.1017/mdh.2017.77

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“…While often the subject of criticism, prison medical officers and prison medical services have over the last few decades become more open and engaged, joining in critiques of prison medical services and highlighting obstacles to the adequate provision of care for their prisoner/patients. In parliamentary inquiries undertaken in the mid-1980s in the UK, prison medical officers reflected openly on dual loyalty and expressed an eagerness to work more closely with rest of the medical profession (Duvall 2018).…”

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“…This shift towards collaboration tended to replace, Duvall has argued, the assertions-similar to those of their nineteenth-century predecessors-that prison medical officers have a particular knowledge and special experience valuable in treating mentally ill prisoners (Duvall 2018). In England, in 2013, responsibility for commissioning all healthcare services for prisoners was transferred to the NHS, but as prison populations continue to grow, so too do the numbers of people in prison who report having mental health issues, and efforts to achieve an equivalent health service are hampered by the prison environment and lack of services outside of prison.…”

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‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland

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Marland

2018

Mental Health in Prisons

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This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the persistently high rates of confinement of prisoners with mental health problems as well as the impact of prison regimes in producing or exacerbating mental illness. Despite recognition of the harmful relationship between the prison and mental disorder, responses by prison medical officers were stymied by their complex tasks of managing and treating mental illness and preserving prison discipline. Our account concludes by drawing out continuities from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in terms of the obstacles to the effective care of mentally ill prisoners.

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‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland

Cox

Marland

2018

Mental Health in Prisons

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Review of periodical literature published in 2018

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The Economic History Review

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There was a wonderfully wide range of articles written this past year on British history in the post-1945 period. Political topics were among the most prevalent, with much work focused on the Thatcher and New Labour periods. Works on the Troubles and their aftermath in Northern Ireland, Scottish nationalism and devolution were also numerous. There was much analysis of other domestic political issues including electoral politics, privatisation, tax policy and constitutional matters. Foreign policy, the post-imperial Commonwealth and attitudes towards military conflicts also featured prominently. The roles of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and religion in British society were explored in much depth, as were those of parenthood and marriage. Issues related to migration, social mobility and the labour market were also prominent. Business case studies were conducted on companies large and small, with much work done on the media industry this year. The housing and mortgage markets were assessed in some detail and there were several works which employed analyses of economic geography. Historical issues involving science and medicine also featured.

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