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This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / / Mike Jay



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Autore: Jay Mike <1959 December 14-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / / Mike Jay Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 362.21
Soggetto topico: Psychiatric hospitals - History
Psychiatric hospitals - Great Britain - History
Asylums - History
Mental health services - History
Mental illness - Treatment - History
Mentally ill - Care - History
History - General
Asylums
Mental health services
Mental illness - Treatment
Mentally ill - Care
Psychiatric hospitals
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma: Exhibition catalogs.
History
Persona (resp. second.): Rodríguez MuñozBárbara
Note generali: "This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, London, from 15 September 2016 to 15 January 2017"--Page 255.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
Nota di contenuto: The madhouse : 18th century -- The lunatic asylum : 19th century -- The mental hospital : 20th century -- Beyond the asylum : 21st century.
Sommario/riassunto: Is mental illness-- or madness-- at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Rarely seen photographs and illustrations drawn from the archives of mental institutions in Europe and the U.S. illuminate and reinforce the compelling narrative, while extensive 'gallery' sections present revealing and thought-provoking artworks by asylum patients and other artists from each era of the institution and beyond.--
Titolo autorizzato: This way madness lies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-500-77362-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910794078303321
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