EAN: 9783837647884

MATERIAL CULTURES OF PSYCHIATRY - MONIKA ANKELE...

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.

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