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““The Weight of Perhaps Ten or a Dozen Human Lives”: Suicide, Accountability, and the Life-Saving Technologies of the Asylum”
Online Digital Project: After the Asylum/Après l’asile
Nov 19th Wellcome Library History of Psychiatry Beyond the Asylum Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
“Bedlam: The Asylum & Beyond” at the Wellcome Collection
Special Issue: “Tales from the Asylum. Patient Narratives and the (De)construction of Psychiatry”
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““The Weight of Perhaps Ten or a Dozen Human Lives”: Suicide, Accountability, and the Life-Saving Technologies of the Asylum”
A recent article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine may be of interest to AHP readers. Exploring the happenings at the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Kathleen Brain describes how the antebellum asylum asserted ownership over the prevention of...
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Online Digital Project: After the Asylum/Après l’asile
A new national project, After the Asylum/Après l’asile, documenting the shift from institutional care to community mental health in Canada has recently launched. As historians Megan Davies and Erika Dyck discuss in a recent blog post, The shift from institutional...
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Thu, Dec 12 2016 8:45 AM
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Nov 19th Wellcome Library History of Psychiatry Beyond the Asylum Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
On November 19th Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library, is running a Wikepedia edit-a-thon to coincide with the Wellcome Collection‘s ongoing exhibit Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond. The event is free and open to the public...
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“Bedlam: The Asylum & Beyond” at the Wellcome Collection
Now on at the Wellcome Collection in London is an exhibit on “Bedlam: The Asylum & Beyond.” The exhibit, which runs until January 15th 2017, is described on their website as follows: Follow the rise and fall of the mental asylum and explore...
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Special Issue: “Tales from the Asylum. Patient Narratives and the (De)construction of Psychiatry”
The January 2016 issue of Medical History is a special issue dedicated to “Tales from the Asylum. Patient Narratives and the (De)construction of Psychiatry.” The issue marks the 30th anniversary of Roy Porter’s seminal article, “The...
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Remembering Oak Ridge: A Digital Exhibit
AHP‘s very own contributor Jennifer Bazar has curated a fascinating online historical archive and exhibit on the Oak Ridge forensic mental health division of the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene, Ontario. Find the exhibit...
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Nordic Network for Madness Studies
Continuing the theme of the history of madness that has organically cropped up in our posts as of late, the Finnish University of Oulu‘s Department of the History of Science and Ideas has launched a new forum for scholars of madness as a substantive...
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The Anatomist, The Alienist, The Artist & changing expressions of madness in Victorian Britain
The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences has published an article online by S. Huddleston and G. A. Russell (out of the Department of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine) on the 19th century case of painter...
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Social History of Medicine May Issue
The May 2015 issue of Social History of Medicine is now online. The issue includes a number of items that may be of interest to AHP readers, including an article on Irish patients in the Victorian Lancashire asylum system and one on the importance of...
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BBC Radio Free Thinking Series: Madness in Civilisation
The March 17 2015 episode of BBC 3’s Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet featured authors Andrew Scull and Lisa Appignanesi, who discussed the history of madness within Western contexts–the reflexive relations between how it has been conceptualized...
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June Talks – BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series
The British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the next two talks as part of the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series...
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Medical History: Families and 19th c. Colonial Lunactic Asylums
The April 2014 issue of Medical History includes an article of interest to AHP readers. Lindy Wilbraham (left), of Rhodes University, discusses the relationship between families and colonial lunatic asylums in late-nineteenth century South America. Title...
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Music from the Asylum
As the old adage goes, there is more than one way to share history. A new project that takes this idea to heart will be made available to the public next week. The Telegraph has reported that Edward Elgar’s “Music for Powick Asylum”...
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Tue, Feb 02 2014 4:21 PM
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Digitizing African American patient records
A project is underway to digitize the records of the Central State Hospital in Virginia. Led by King Davis, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, the project includes some 800,000 documents...
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Thu, Feb 02 2014 3:00 AM
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HoP in the November 2013 issue of Social History of Medicine
The November 2013 issue of Social History of Medicine includes two articles that may be of interest to AHP readers. In the first of these articles, Rob Ellis discusses the role of politics in the management of the insane at London County Council’s...
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