Material Cultures of Psychiatry
Monika Ankele · Benoît Majerus
Oct 2020 · transcript Verlag
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In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet 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 perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency o...
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Monika Ankele (Dr. phil.) ist Kuratorin am Medizinhistorischen Museum Hamburg und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf. Sie forscht zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Patientengeschichte, phraseologische und raumtheoretische Zugänge, materielle Kultur). Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie u.a. mit dem Käthe-Leichter-Preis für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung sowie mit dem Michael-Mitterauer-Preis für Gesellschafts,- Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte ausgezeichnet.
Benoît Majerus arbeitet als Historiker am Centre for Contemporary and Digital History an der Universität Luxemburg.
Monika Ankele (Dr. phil.) ist Kuratorin am Medizinhistorischen Museum Hamburg und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf. Sie forscht zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Patientengeschic...
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