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This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond

Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- author, curator, Rodrâiguez Muنnoz, Bâarbara, curator, Wellcome Collection, organizer, host instituition

Overview

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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Subject: Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) / Asylums History Exhibitions. / Psychiatric hospitals History Exhibitions. / Mental illness History Exhibitions. / Mentally ill History Exhibitions. / Mental health services History Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9780500518977, 0500518971

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC439 J434 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE