Material Cultures of Psychiatry /

In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs and binding belts. These powerful objects are often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients are treated, but very little is known about the agency of thes...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Anatole, Le Bras (Contributor, contribtor.), Ankele, Monika (Editor), Anna, Urbach (Contributor, contribtor.), Anne, Wilk (Contributor, contribtor.), Benoît, Majerus (Contributor, contribtor.), Christine, Rehders (Contributor, contribtor.), Céline, Kaiser (Contributor, contribtor.), Daniel, Hoge (Contributor, contribtor.), Kai, Sammet (Contributor, contribtor.), Katrin, Luchsinger (Contributor, contribtor.), Kirsi, Heimonen (Contributor, contribtor.), Linnea, Kuglitsch (Contributor, contribtor.), Lisa, Landsteiner (Contributor, contribtor.), Louise, Hide (Contributor, contribtor.), Lydia, Oertelt (Contributor, contribtor.), Maia Isabelle, Woolner (Contributor, contribtor.), Majerus, Benoît (Editor), Marianna, Scarfone (Contributor, contribtor.), Mascha, Deneke (Contributor, contribtor.), Max, Gawlich (Contributor, contribtor.), Michelle Williams, Gamaker (Contributor, contribtor.), Monika, Ankele (Contributor, contribtor.), Novina, Göhlsdorf (Contributor, contribtor.), Raja, Goltz (Contributor, contribtor.), Sari, Kuuva (Contributor, contribtor.), Stefan, Wulf (Contributor, contribtor.), Viviane, Stopp (Contributor, contribtor.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Series:Histoire ; 155
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs and binding belts. These powerful objects are often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients are treated, but very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new gaze on the history of psychiatry: it allows a narrative which shows "doing psychiatry" to be a complex entanglement where power is permanently negotiated. Scholars from different social sciences show how this material gaze ensures a critical approach while opening up the field to alternative questions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:3839447887
9783837647884
3837647889
9783839447888