| Description |
1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge research in museum studies ; 4 |
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Routledge research in museum studies ; 4
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| Contents |
pt. I. Ways of Seeing and Remembering Psychiatry in the Museum. Seeing and Not Seeing Psychiatry -- Collecting Psychiatry's Past: Collectors and Their Collections of Psychiatric Objects in Western Histories -- Pictures of People, Pictures of Places: Photography and the Asylum -- The Ethics of Exhibiting Psychiatric Materials. pt. II. Material Culture and Memories of Madness. 'Always Distinguishable from Outsiders': Materialising Cultures of Clothing from Psychiatric Institutions -- Snatches of Music, Flickering Images and the Smell of Leather: The Material Culture of Recreational Pastimes in Psychiatric Collections in Scotland and Australia -- 'A Grave Injustice': The Mental Hospital and Shifting Sites of Memory -- Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland Mental Hospital. pt. III. Bodies and Fragments. In the Interests of Science: Gathering Corpses from Lunatic Asylums -- The Anatomy Museum and Mental Illness: The Centrality of Informed Consent -- The Material and Visual Culture of Patients in a Contemporary Psychiatric Secure Unit |
| Summary |
While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums 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. Linked to the study of medical museums this work broadens the study of the history of psychiatry by investigating the significance and importance of the role of twentieth-century psychiatric communities in the preservation, interpretation and representation of the history of mental health through the practice of collecting. In remembering the asylum and its different communities in the twentieth century, individuals who lived and worked inside an institution have struggled to preserve the physical character of their world. This collection of essays considers the way that collections of objects from the former psychiatric institution have played a role in constructions of its history. It historicises the very act of collecting, and also examines ethical problems and practices which arise from these activities for curators and exhibitions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Material culture.
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Mental illness -- History -- Sources
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Mental illness -- Museums
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Mentally ill -- History -- Sources
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Museum exhibits.
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Museums -- Collection management.
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Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- Sources
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Psychiatry -- History -- Sources
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Psychiatry -- Museums
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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Material culture.
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Mental illness.
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Mentally ill.
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Museum exhibits.
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Museums -- Collection management.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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Psychiatric hospitals.
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Psychiatry.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coleborne, Catharine.
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MacKinnon, Dolly.
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| ISBN |
0203807103 |
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0415880920 |
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1136660100 |
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1283460262 |
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9780203807101 |
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9780415880923 |
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9781136660108 |
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9781283460262 |
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