Description
Day-long presentation at Dundee Science Centre of photo exhibition with Q&A about my project, promoting modern mental health through the lessons of history. Audience mainly families: kids did interactive stuff while parents engaged with me, talking about how science has influence psychiatry over the centuries - a subject covered in my exhibition, which is about photography, diagnoses, conditions, treatments, medical theories, and the lives of sufferers, all in a very different material environment from today.| Period | 29 Sept 2018 |
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| Held at | School of History |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |
Keywords
- psychiatry
- history
- photography
- phrenology
- physiognomy
- mental disorder
- learning disabilities
- alcohol misuse
- mental health
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