Asylum Ways of Seeing - Murray, Heather
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"Asylum Ways of Seeing is a social history of psychiatric patient cultures in the twentieth-century United States. Heather Murray's angle is less institutional than cultural and intellectual. Rather than focusing, like so many books in the history of medicine, on the rise of the institution and its changing treatments over time, Murray attempts something much more challenging, especially in this age of patient confidentiality: she seeks to understand the changing attitudes of patients and their families toward mental illness and the care they received"--

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"Asylum Ways of Seeing is a social history of psychiatric patient cultures in the twentieth-century United States. Heather Murray's angle is less institutional than cultural and intellectual. Rather than focusing, like so many books in the history of medicine, on the rise of the institution and its changing treatments over time, Murray attempts something much more challenging, especially in this age of patient confidentiality: she seeks to understand the changing attitudes of patients and their families toward mental illness and the care they received"--
Autorenporträt
Heather Murray is Associate Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and author of Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.