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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
Contributor:
Coleborne, Catharine.
MacKinnon, Dolly.
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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