Chapter 7 Mansions in the Orchard : architecture, asylum and community in twentieth-century mental health care

• Tác giả: Sarah Chaney, Jennifer Walke
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN-13: 978-1526142474
• Thông tin xuất bản: Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (24 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 183104
• Chủ đề: 1. History of ideas; 2. History of medicine; 3. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

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.