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Exhibiting Madness in Museums
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Exhibiting Madness in Museums

Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display
BookHardcover
Ranking406227inGeschichte
CHF193.00

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-415-88092-3
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date22/06/2011
Edition1. A.
SeriesRoutledge Research in Museum Studies
Pages228 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 229 mm
Weight580 g
IllustrationsFarb., s/w. Abb.
Article no.11549899
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.23286614
Product groupGeschichte
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Catharine Coleborne is Associate Professor in History in the History Programme, School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research interests include histories of families and institutions, mental health and oral histories, colonial psychiatry, ethnicity and gender. Her most recent book is Madness in the Family (2010).



Dolly MacKinnon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, at The University of Queensland. A cultural historian whose publications span early modern history and the histories of psychiatry, Dolly has also co-edited Madness in Australia: Histories, Heritage and the Asylum (2003) with Catharine Coleborne.