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Exhibiting madness in museums : remembering psychiatry through collections and display / edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon.
Van Pelt Library RC454.4 .E924 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in museum studies ; 4.
- Routledge research in museum studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--Museums.
- Psychiatry.
- Psychiatry--History--Sources.
- Mental illness--Museums.
- Mental illness.
- Mental illness--History--Sources.
- Psychiatric hospitals--History--Sources.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Mentally ill--History--Sources.
- Mentally ill.
- Museums--Collection management.
- Museums.
- Museum exhibits.
- Material culture.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- Part I Ways of Seeing and Remembering Psychiatry in the Museum
- 1 Seeing and Not Seeing Psychiatry / Dolly Mackinnon Mackinnon, Dolly, Catharine Coleborne Coleborne, Catharine 3
- 2 Collecting Psychiatry's Past: Collectors and Their Collections of Psychiatric Objects in Western Histories / Catharine Coleborne Coleborne, Catharine 14
- 3 Pictures of People, Pictures of Places: Photography and the Asylum / Barbara Brookes Brookes, Barbara 30
- 4 The Ethics of Exhibiting Psychiatric Materials / Nurin veis veis, Nurin 48
- Part II Material Culture and Memories of Madness
- 5 'Always Distinguishable from Outsiders': Materialising Cultures of Clothing from Psychiatric Institutions / Bronwyn Labrum Labrum, Bronwyn 65
- 6 Snatches of Music, Flickering Images and the Smell of Leather: The Material Culture of Recreational Pastimes in Psychiatric Collections in Scotland and Australia / Dolly Mackinnon Mackinnon, Dolly 84
- 7 'A Grave Injustice': The Mental Hospital and Shifting Sites of Memory / Nathan Flis Flis, Nathan, David Wright Wright, David 101
- 8 Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland Mental Hospital / Joanna Besley Besley, Joanna, Mark Finnane Finnane, Mark 116
- Part III Bodies and Fragments
- 9 In the Interests of Science: Gathering Corpses from Lunatic Asylums / Helen Macdonald Macdonald, Helen 139
- 10 The Anatomy Museum and Mental Illness: The Centrality of Informed Consent / D. Gareth Jones Jones, D. Gareth 161
- 11 The Material and Visual Culture of Patients in a Contemporary Psychiatric Secure Unit / Fiona R. Parrott Parrott, Fiona R. 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415880923
- 0415880920
- 9780203807101
- 0203807103
- OCLC:
- 641536320
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