Catharine Coleborne

Why Talk About Madness?

Bringing History into the Conversation

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This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these histories? What can these tell us about the challenges and legacies of mental health care across the world today? Offering an intervention into new ways of thinking - and talking - about 'mad' history, Catharine Coleborne explores the social and cultural impact of the history of the mad movement, self-help and mental health consumer advocacy from the 1960s inside a longer tradition of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-21096-0
EAN: 9783030210960
Produktnummer: 33405434
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 82 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'106 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Catharine Coleborne is Professor and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. With Matthew Smith, she edits the Mental Health in Historical Perspective series for Palgrave. Her previous publications include Insanity, Identity and Empire: Colonial Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1870-1910 (2015). Catharine is currently second Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects focused on histories of mental health and psychiatry in Australia spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.