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This Innovative Collection Of Essays Offers A Comparative History Of Independent And Institutional Collections Of Psychiatric Objects In Australia, New Zealand, Canada And The United Kingdom. Leading Scholars In The Field Investigate Collectors, Collections, Their Display, And The Reactions To Exhibitions Of The History Of Insanity. Pt. I. Ways Of Seeing And Remembering Psychiatry In The Museum. Seeing And Not Seeing Psychiatry -- Collecting Psychiatry's Past: Collectors And Their Collections Of Psychiatric Objects In Western Histories -- Pictures Of People, Pictures Of Places: Photography And The Asylum -- The Ethics Of Exhibiting Psychiatric Materials. Pt. Ii. Material Culture And Memories Of Madness. 'always Distinguishable From Outsiders': Materialising Cultures Of Clothing From Psychiatric Institutions -- Snatches Of Music, Flickering Images And The Smell Of Leather: The Material Culture Of Recreational Pastimes In Psychiatric Collections In Scotland And Australia -- 'a Grave Injustice': The Mental Hospital And Shifting Sites Of Memory -- Remembering Goodna: Stories From A Queensland Mental Hospital. Pt. Iii. Bodies And Fragments. In The Interests Of Science: Gathering Corpses From Lunatic Asylums -- The Anatomy Museum And Mental Illness: The Centrality Of Informed Consent -- The Material And Visual Culture Of Patients In A Contemporary Psychiatric Secure Unit. Edited By Catharine Coleborne And Dolly Mackinnon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 197-210) And Index.