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Exhibiting madness in museums

by Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon

Material cultureMentally illMental illnessPsychiatric hospitalsCollection managementSourcesMuseum exhibitsPsychiatry

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.

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Book data: Open Library