Matthew Smith is professor of health history at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. His books include Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia, 2015) and Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (2012).

Matthew Smith has done a great service by restoring to us the vanished history of social psychiatry. The pandemic uncovered social fissures, including large racial and ethnic divides. These should clear the way for a renaissance of social psychiatry: to have good mental health, people need decent lives.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Magic Years1. The Origins of Social Psychiatry2. From Hobohemia to the Gold Coast3. Swamp Yankees and Proper New Haveners4. Madness in the Metropolis5. From Cove to Woodlot6. The Decline of Social PsychiatryEpilogue: Social Psychiatry and Universal Basic IncomeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Matthew Smith is professor of health history at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. His books include Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia, 2015) and Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (2012).

Matthew Smith has done a great service by restoring to us the vanished history of social psychiatry. The pandemic uncovered social fissures, including large racial and ethnic divides. These should clear the way for a renaissance of social psychiatry: to have good mental health, people need decent lives.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Magic Years1. The Origins of Social Psychiatry2. From Hobohemia to the Gold Coast3. Swamp Yankees and Proper New Haveners4. Madness in the Metropolis5. From Cove to Woodlot6. The Decline of Social PsychiatryEpilogue: Social Psychiatry and Universal Basic IncomeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Matthew Smith is professor of health history at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. His books include Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia, 2015) and Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (2012).

Matthew Smith has done a great service by restoring to us the vanished history of social psychiatry. The pandemic uncovered social fissures, including large racial and ethnic divides. These should clear the way for a renaissance of social psychiatry: to have good mental health, people need decent lives.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Magic Years1. The Origins of Social Psychiatry2. From Hobohemia to the Gold Coast3. Swamp Yankees and Proper New Haveners4. Madness in the Metropolis5. From Cove to Woodlot6. The Decline of Social PsychiatryEpilogue: Social Psychiatry and Universal Basic IncomeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex