Vicky Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 692959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicky Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicky |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0766-1886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Baby Named Louise
The article examines how attitudes towards disability and infancy shaped informed consent and medical ethics in late 1970s Britain. It focuses on a baby who shared her year, month of birth, and forename – Louise - with the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation. This Louise, born with spina bifida myelomeningocele, died within a month of birth from infection, dehydration, and starvation. The article reveals how progress treating spin…
A Multitude of Drops
Peter Barham, Closing the Asylum
We have only recently started to analyse psychiatric deinstitutionalisation as a historical phenomenon, and to consider its origins, its enduring impacts on people who experience mental illnesses, and society more broadly. As this significant period in psychiatry comes under sustained historical scrutiny, it is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the insights and contributions made by contemporaneous studies of this process. Top of that list shoul…
‘Heading up a blind alley’? Scottish psychiatric hospitals in the era of deinstitutionalization
This article examines Scottish provision of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s. It demonstrates that institutional services did not rapidly disappear across the UK following the Ministry of Health’s decision to shut down psychiatric hospitals in 1961, and highlights Scotland’s distinctive trajectory. Furthermore, it contends that psychiatric hospitals developed new approaches to assist patients in this era, thereby contributing towards the t…
Deinstitutionalisation and After
Worth Saving
Sue Wheatcroft’s book fills a gap in the historiography on evacuation by examining the policies implemented for children in England defined at the time as blind, deaf, epileptic, physically defective or mentally defective, as well as those children who would come to be termed maladjusted or emotionally disturbed. Drawing extensively on government records, her study commences with an overview of the educational provisions in place for disabled chi…
Cantines d'entreprise et discours hygiénistes dans l'industrie britannique de l'entre-deux-guerres
L'implantation de cantines au sein d'un grand nombre d'usines britanniques pendant la Première Guerre mondiale a été le fruit de l'intervention du gouvernement, puis à nouveau pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il serait pourtant trompeur d'affirmer que l'existence de cantines d'entreprise en Grande-Bretagne ne fut que le résultat de l'intervention étatique. L'idéal de santé au travail qui a pris corps durant la Grande Guerre, et dont les cantin…
Rethinking Post-war Mental Health Care
The article argues that we need to examine how the transformations of psychiatric practice in the post-war era affected individuals suffering from chronic mental disorder, via an analysis which encompasses the biomedical and social dimensions of intra- and extra-mural care. It focuses upon the development of industrial therapy units in British psychiatric hospitals, in which patients undertook industrial sub-contract work
Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories
In Britain, this vision of the “homely” factory—a term deployed to connote a sense of coziness and to evoke the atmosphere of the domestic home—was promoted by women factory inspectors, industrial welfare supervisors, companies, and advertisers seeking to reconcile modernity with tradition, to imbue mass-produced goods with an individualized handcrafted aura, and to resolve industrial labor problems. Its origins can be traced back to the nineteen…
From Danger and Motherhood to Health and Beauty
A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial work on the reproductive health of women, there was a great deal of interest in the health of young, unmarried girls in the workplace, particularly the factory. Adopting a broader time frame, we s…
From Danger and Motherhood to Health and Beauty
A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial work on the reproductive health of women, there was a great deal of interest in the health of young, unmarried girls in the workplace, particularly the factory. Adopting a broader time frame, we s…
Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories
In Britain, this vision of the “homely” factory—a term deployed to connote a sense of coziness and to evoke the atmosphere of the domestic home—was promoted by women factory inspectors, industrial welfare supervisors, companies, and advertisers seeking to reconcile modernity with tradition, to imbue mass-produced goods with an individualized handcrafted aura, and to resolve industrial labor problems. Its origins can be traced back to the nineteen…
Rethinking Post-war Mental Health Care
The article argues that we need to examine how the transformations of psychiatric practice in the post-war era affected individuals suffering from chronic mental disorder, via an analysis which encompasses the biomedical and social dimensions of intra- and extra-mural care. It focuses upon the development of industrial therapy units in British psychiatric hospitals, in which patients undertook industrial sub-contract work
From Danger and Motherhood to Health and Beauty
A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial work on the reproductive health of women, there was a great deal of interest in the health of young, unmarried girls in the workplace, particularly the factory. Adopting a broader time frame, we s…
Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories
In Britain, this vision of the “homely” factory—a term deployed to connote a sense of coziness and to evoke the atmosphere of the domestic home—was promoted by women factory inspectors, industrial welfare supervisors, companies, and advertisers seeking to reconcile modernity with tradition, to imbue mass-produced goods with an individualized handcrafted aura, and to resolve industrial labor problems. Its origins can be traced back to the nineteen…
Rethinking Post-war Mental Health Care
The article argues that we need to examine how the transformations of psychiatric practice in the post-war era affected individuals suffering from chronic mental disorder, via an analysis which encompasses the biomedical and social dimensions of intra- and extra-mural care. It focuses upon the development of industrial therapy units in British psychiatric hospitals, in which patients undertook industrial sub-contract work
Cantines d'entreprise et discours hygiénistes dans l'industrie britannique de l'entre-deux-guerres
L'implantation de cantines au sein d'un grand nombre d'usines britanniques pendant la Première Guerre mondiale a été le fruit de l'intervention du gouvernement, puis à nouveau pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il serait pourtant trompeur d'affirmer que l'existence de cantines d'entreprise en Grande-Bretagne ne fut que le résultat de l'intervention étatique. L'idéal de santé au travail qui a pris corps durant la Grande Guerre, et dont les cantin…
Deinstitutionalisation and After
Worth Saving
Sue Wheatcroft’s book fills a gap in the historiography on evacuation by examining the policies implemented for children in England defined at the time as blind, deaf, epileptic, physically defective or mentally defective, as well as those children who would come to be termed maladjusted or emotionally disturbed. Drawing extensively on government records, her study commences with an overview of the educational provisions in place for disabled chi…
‘Heading up a blind alley’? Scottish psychiatric hospitals in the era of deinstitutionalization
This article examines Scottish provision of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s. It demonstrates that institutional services did not rapidly disappear across the UK following the Ministry of Health’s decision to shut down psychiatric hospitals in 1961, and highlights Scotland’s distinctive trajectory. Furthermore, it contends that psychiatric hospitals developed new approaches to assist patients in this era, thereby contributing towards the t…
A Multitude of Drops
Peter Barham, Closing the Asylum
We have only recently started to analyse psychiatric deinstitutionalisation as a historical phenomenon, and to consider its origins, its enduring impacts on people who experience mental illnesses, and society more broadly. As this significant period in psychiatry comes under sustained historical scrutiny, it is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the insights and contributions made by contemporaneous studies of this process. Top of that list shoul…
A Baby Named Louise
The article examines how attitudes towards disability and infancy shaped informed consent and medical ethics in late 1970s Britain. It focuses on a baby who shared her year, month of birth, and forename – Louise - with the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation. This Louise, born with spina bifida myelomeningocele, died within a month of birth from infection, dehydration, and starvation. The article reveals how progress treating spin…
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Medical History and Research (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Christian ministry (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)