Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

Tommy Dickinson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mental Health at King's College London

Introduction
1. Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939-67
2. Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930-59
3. 'Subordinate nurses'
4. 'Subversive nurses'
5. Liberation, 1957-74
Concluding remarks
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix: biographies of interviewees
Index