Mansions in the Orchard architecture, asylum and community in twentieth-century mental health care
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 r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester (UK)
Manchester University Press
2020, 2020
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Chapter 7 of the book Communicating the history of medicine / Solveig Jülich, Sven Widmalm [editors]. Manchester (UK) : Manchester University Press, 2020 |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (pages 139-161) illustrations |