Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

Contributor(s): Coleborne, Catharine (Editor), MacKinnon, Dolly (Editor)

ISBN: 9780815346807

Publisher: Routledge

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Pub Date: December 15, 2017

Dewey: 616.89

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.48" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.69 lbs) 228 pages

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Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

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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.