| Description |
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
1. UQP Australian studies |
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UQP Australian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: 'Madness' in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum / Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon -- Pt. 1. Australian Trajectories -- Ch. 1. Asylum histories: reconsidering Australia's lunatic past / Stephen Garton -- Ch. 2. From Dangerous lunatic to human rights?: the law and mental illness in Australian history / Mark Finnane -- Pt. 2. Gender and Spaces -- Ch. 3. The 'ideal asylum' and nineteenth-century lunatic asylums in South Australia / Susan Piddock -- Ch. 4. Space, power and gender in the asylum in Victoria, 1850s-1870s / Catharine Coleborne -- Ch. 5. Gender, space and work: the asylum as gendered workplace in Victoria / Lee-Ann Monk -- Ch. 6. 'Hearing madness': the soundscape of the asylum / Dolly MacKinnon -- Pt. 3. Administration, Regulation and Public Scrutiny -- Ch. 7. Administration and the asylum in Victoria, 1860s-1880s / Andrew Crowther -- Ch. 8. Flickering insights: the press, the state and the asylum and Goodna Mental Hospital, Queensland, 1915 / Raymond Evans -- Ch. 9. Sexuality and 'madness': regulating women's gender 'deviance' through the asylum, the Orange Asylum in the 1930s / Ruth Ford -- Ch. 10. Psychiatric abuse at Chelmsford Private Hospital, New South Wales, 1960s-1980s / Emily Wilson -- Pt. 4. Social and Cultural Histories of 'Madness' and The Asylum -- Ch. 11. A horror of the asylum or of the home: women's stories 1880-1910 / Janice Chesters -- Ch. 12. Forehead low, aspect idiotic': intellectual disability in Victorian asylums, 1870-1887 / Charles Fox -- Ch. 13. 'Jolly and fond of singing': the gendered nature of musical entertainment in Queensland mental institutions c1870-c1937 / Dolly MacKinnon -- Ch. 14. 'Crazed with grief?' The asylum and the Great War in Australia / Tanja Luckins -- Pt. 5. History, Memory and Cultural Heritage -- Ch. 15. Collecting 'madness': psychiatric collections and the museum in Victoria and Western Australia / Catharine Coleborne -- Ch. 16. Preserving psychiatry through art: historical perspectives on the Cunningham Dax Collection of Psychiatric Art / Belinda Robson -- Ch. 17. Reading psychitry's archive: academic medicine and psychiatric medicine in mid-twentieth-century Victoria / Ann Westmore -- Ch. 18. Asylums as cultural heritage: the challenges of adaptive re-use / Ray Osborne |
| Summary |
Covering the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the essays discuss the history of the asylum system in different colonies, patient histories, cultures of work, gender and race within the asylum , spatial constructions of madness, recreations and therapies, archives and museum displays, medical records, and much more |
| Analysis |
Mental disorders |
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Psychiatric hospitals |
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Psychiatry |
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History |
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Sex differences |
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Cultural heritage |
| Notes |
series editor: Richard Nile |
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Included bibliographical references (p. [231]-266) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospitals -- Australia -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Care -- Australia -- History.
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Mental illness -- Australia.
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Mental illness -- Australia -- History.
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Psychiatry -- Australia -- History.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
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Psychiatry -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Coleborne, Catharine.
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MacKinnon, Dolly.
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| LC no. |
2004463711 |
| ISBN |
0702234060 |
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