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Author Coleborne, Catharine

Title Exhibiting Madness in Museums : Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series Routledge research in museum studies ; 4
Routledge research in museum studies ; 4
Contents Cover; Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Part I: Ways of Seeing and Remembering Psychiatry in the Museum; 1 Seeing and Not Seeing Psychiatry; 2 Collecting Psychiatry's Past: Collectors and Their Collections of Psychiatric Objects in Western Histories; 3 Pictures of People, Pictures of Places: Photography and the Asylum; 4 The Ethics of Exhibiting Psychiatric Materials; Part II: Material Culture and Memories of Madness
5 'Always Distinguishable from Outsiders': Materialising Cultures of Clothing from Psychiatric Institutions6 Snatches of Music, Flickering Images and the Smell of Leather: The Material Culture of Recreational Pastimes in Psychiatric Collections in Scotland and Australia; 7 'A Grave Injustice': The Mental Hospital and Shifting Sites of Memory; 8 Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland Mental Hospital; Part III: Bodies and Fragments; 9 In the Interests of Science: Gathering Corpses from Lunatic Asylums; 10 The Anatomy Museum and Mental Illness: The Centrality of Informed Consent
11 The Material and Visual Culture of Patients in a Contemporary Psychiatric Secure UnitList of Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Summary This innovative collection of essays offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. Leading scholars in the field investigate collectors, collections, their display, and the reactions to exhibitions of the history of insanity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie gnd
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau gnd
Subject Psychiatry -- Museums
Psychiatry -- History -- Sources
Mental illness -- Museums
Mental illness -- History -- Sources
Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- Sources
Mentally ill -- History -- Sources
Museums -- Collection management.
Museum exhibits.
Material culture.
Exhibitions.
Museums.
Psychiatry -- history
Mental Disorders -- history
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
Exhibitions as Topic
Museums
collections management.
material culture (discipline)
exhibitions (events)
museums (institutions)
Museums
Exhibitions
Material culture
Mental illness
Mentally ill
Museum exhibits
Museums -- Collection management
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Psychiatrie
Psychiatrie.
Museum.
Sammlung.
Ausstellung.
Psykiatrisk vård -- utställningar.
Psykiatriska sjukhus -- historia.
Psykiatri -- museer.
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author MacKinnon, Dolly
ISBN 9780203807101
0203807103