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  • Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment

    Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context

    Edited by James Moran, Leslie Topp, Jonathan Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Freedom and the Cage

    Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914

    by Leslie Topp ...
    Series series Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies
    Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

    by Simon Jarrett ...
    The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into ... Read more

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  • The New Museology

    Edited by Peter Vergo ...
    Series series Critical Views
    Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, historians and ... Read more

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Exhibiting Madness in Museums

    Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

    Edited by Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

    In and Beyond the Asylum

    Edited by Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and ... Read more

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  • Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society

    by Peter Barham ...
    The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of almost everyone, but it has impacted most severely on disadvantaged groups such as people with severe mental health problems, throwing pre-existing inequalities into sharper and starker relief. Though they had mostly all been closed by the turn of the century, the passing of the old Victorian asylums is still a matter of enduring controversy. ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Professor Joyce L. Huff, Professor Martha Stoddard Holmes ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing ... Read more

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  • The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

    Essays on the History of Psychiatry

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter.Chapters on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Histories of Art and Design Education

    Collected Essays

    by Mervyn Romans ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections that propose the emergence of genres of research in the field - Drawing from examples, Motives and ... Read more

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  • Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time ... Read more

    $65.99 USD