Chapter 7 Mansions in the Orchard architecture, asylum and community in twentieth-century mental health care

• Hoofdauteur: Chaney, Sarah (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Walke, Jennifer (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
• Reeks: Social Histories of Medicine
• Onderwerpen: Social & cultural history; History of ideas; History of medicine; Museums; Museology; Public engagement; History of psychiatry; Mental health; User involvement; Stigma
• Online toegang: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Samenvatting

This chapter explores the value and relevance of a combined academic and public engagement approach to the history of medicine. The authors consider a specific mental health project at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the context of a longer tradition of service user involvement in mental health research and museology. It is argued that the project's approach presented a unique opportunity for mental health education and the reduction of stigma. These elements of the project informed the historical focus, resulting in a more inclusive history than in many institutional histories of psychiatry, focusing on the importance of space, place and architecture in twentieth-century psychiatry. The chapter concludes that community engagement within a museum setting enriches the history of medicine as a discipline and vice versa.

Fysieke beschrijving

1 electronic resource (24 p.)

ISBN

9781526142474

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Open Access