TY  - CHAP
AU  - Chaney, Sarah
AU  - Walke, Jennifer
AB  - This chapter explores the value and relevance of a combined academic and public engagement approach to the history of medicine. The authors consider a specific mental health project at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the context of a longer tradition of service user involvement in mental health research and museology. It is argued that the project’s approach presented a unique opportunity for mental health education and the reduction of stigma. These elements of the project informed the historical focus, resulting in a more inclusive history than in many institutional histories of psychiatry, focusing on the importance of space, place and architecture in twentieth-century psychiatry. The chapter concludes that community engagement within a museum setting enriches the history of medicine as a discipline and vice versa.
DO  - 10.7765/9781526142474
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006543
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135845030
KW  - Museums
KW  - Museology
KW  - Public engagement
KW  - History of psychiatry
KW  - Mental health
KW  - User involvement
KW  - Stigma
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9ceb6277-a9d1-43a8-9907-6ee339c7b610/9781526142474_ch7.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23604
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2019
TI  - Chapter 7 Mansions in the Orchard : architecture, asylum and community in twentieth-century mental health care
ER  - 
