Exhibiting madness in museums

Description:

This innovative collection of essays 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.

subjects: Material culture,  Mentally ill,  Mental illness,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Collection management,  Sources,  Museum exhibits,  Psychiatry,  Museums,  History,  Mental Disorders,  Exhibits as Topic,  Psychiatry, history,  Maladies mentales,  Musées,  Histoire,  Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale,  Gestion des collections,  Objets exposés,  Culture matérielle,  Collections management,  Material culture (discipline),  MEDICAL,  Mental Health,  General,  PSYCHOLOGY,  Clinical Psychology,  Psychopathology,  Exhibitions as Topic