Stories
- Article
Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
- Article
The housing that gives hope to refugees
A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.
- Article
Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
![Hospitals and asylums of the world. Vols. 1-2, [Asylums] / by Henry C. Burdett.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0023315/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Hospitals and asylums of the world. Vols. 1-2, [Asylums] / by Henry C. Burdett.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0023316/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
- Books
- Online
Asylums for foundlings : their supporters.
Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.Date: [1860]- Books
Asylums, families and the state / by Mark Finnane.
Finnane, Mark.Date: 1985
- Books
- Online
Asylums for foundlings : their supporters / Octogenarian, medical officer in retirement.
Octogenarian.Date: 1860- Books
Asylums and psychiatric administration in France and England / by J. Parigot.
Parigot, J. (Julius)Date: 1863
