Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

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Museum, historic sites, galler

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display : Routledge : 9780815346807 : 0815346808 : 15 Dec 2017 : 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 twent

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