02764namaa2200553uu 4500 oapen60611 oapen 20251217011858.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2021a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9783030695590 9783030695613 oapen oapen eng dc M thema MB thema MBP thema MBPK thema Robert Ellis edt Voices in the History of Madness Personal and Professional Perspectives on Mental Health and Illness Cham Springer Nature 2021 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Mental Health in Historical Perspective (MHHP) Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This interdisciplinary volume brings together new research that broadens our understanding of the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the chapters that follow, we hear from people who have experienced mental health difficulties and were on the receiving end of regimens and treatments. Alongside medical notes, we find records of decisions made by a range of people with financial and political agendas. Correspondence with families reminds us that people deemed to be mentally ill were not ciphers; they had their histories, their people, preferences, hopes and losses. The contributions utilise a range of archival materials, oral history, personal testimony, history of art, and literary methodologies and provide novel insights into the voices of individuals, institutions, and communities in an international context. Key overlapping themes divide the volume into four parts: Shifting Perspectives in the Industry of Madness; Reconstructing Patient Perspectives; The Visual and the Material; and Mad Studies and Activism Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Health systems and services thema Medicine and Nursing thema Medicine: general issues thema Mental health services thema activism historiography interdisciplinary lived experience madness mental ill health voice Robert Ellis aut Sarah Kendal aut Steven J. Taylor aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60611 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37564 37564