This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / Mike Jay.

Main entry:

Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- author, curator.

Title & Author:

This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / Mike Jay.

Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, London, from 15 September 2016 to 15 January 2017"--Page 255.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
The madhouse : 18th century -- The lunatic asylum : 19th century -- The mental hospital : 20th century -- Beyond the asylum : 21st century.

Summary:

Is mental illness-- or madness-- at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Rarely seen photographs and illustrations drawn from the archives of mental institutions in Europe and the U.S. illuminate and reinforce the compelling narrative, while extensive 'gallery' sections present revealing and thought-provoking artworks by asylum patients and other artists from each era of the institution and beyond.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9780500518977
0500518971

Subject:

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Blutiger Jupiter Musikgruppe Europa
Psychiatric hospitals History Exhibitions.
Psychiatric hospitals Great Britain History Exhibitions.
Asylums History Exhibitions.
Mental health services History Exhibitions.
Mental illness Treatment History Exhibitions.
Mentally ill Care History Exhibitions.
Exhibitions.
Mental Health Services history
Exhibitions as Topic
Hospitals, Psychiatric history
Mentally Ill Persons history
Asiles Histoire Expositions.
Services de santé mentale Histoire Expositions.
Maladies mentales Traitement Histoire Expositions.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Soins Histoire Expositions.
Expositions.
exhibitions (events)
44.01 history of medicine.
Asylums
Mental health services
Mental illness Treatment
Mentally ill Care
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatrie
Wahnsinn
Psychose
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Catalog
Pictorial Work
Exhibition
Exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
illustrated books.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works
Catalogs
History
Catalogues.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Rodríguez Muñoz, Bárbara, curator.
Wellcome Collection, organizer, host instituition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297079
Call No.: BIB 243385
Status: Available

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