Sources in the history of psychiatry, from 1800 to the present / edited by Chris Millard and Jennifer Wallis.

Date:
2022
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Description

"This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting field. The chapters in this volume deal with physical sources that might be encountered in the archive, such as asylum casebooks, artwork, material artefacts, post-mortem records, more general types of source including medical journals, literature, public enquiries, and key themes within the field such as feminist sources, activist and survivor sources. Offering practical advice and examples for the novice, as well as insightful suggestions for the experienced scholar, the authors provide worked-through examples of how various source types can be used and exploited and reflect productively on the limits and constraints of different kinds of source material. In so doing it presents readers with a comprehensive guide on how to 'read' such sources to research and write the history of psychiatry. Methodically rigorous, clear and accessible, this is a vital reference for students just starting out within the field through more experienced scholars experimenting with new and unfamiliar sources in the history of medicine and history of psychiatry more specifically."-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Physical description

xv, 263 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Chris Millard and Jennifer Wallis -- 1 Asylum records: Files, notes, casebooks, and patient registers / Cris Sarg, Cheryl McGeachan, and Chris Philo -- 2 Photographic sources in the history of psychiatry / Beatriz Pichel -- 3 Using asylum post-mortem records in the history of psychiatry / Jennifer Wallis -- 4 Psychiatry's material culture: The symbolic power of the Straitjacket / Sarah Chaney -- 5 Medical journals / Chris Millard -- 6 Experiments in life: literature's contribution to the history of psychiatry / Melissa Dickson -- 7 Sources and methods in the histories of colonial psychiatry / Sloan Mahone -- 8 Legal sources in the history of psychiatry / Janet Weston -- 9 Removing the 'Veil of Secrecy': public inquiries as sources in the history of psychiatry, 1960s-1970's / Louise Hide -- 10 Activist sources and the survivor movement / Steffan Blayney -- 11 Patients, practitioners and protestors: feminist sources and approaches in the history of psychiatry / Sarah Crook -- 12 Using art in the history of psychiatry / Nicholas Tromans -- 13 Using film in the history of psychiatry / Katie Joice -- 14 Oral history in the history of psychiatry / Victoria Hoyle.

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  • 9780367541231
  • 0367541238