Description
2-hour slide-based lecture/seminar/workshop with prisoners at HMYOI Polmont, based on my project 'Promoting modern mental health through the lessons of history'. The lecture/seminar was delivered twice in one day to different audiences, and was made possible as part of the St Andrews based project 'Cell Block Science', conducted in association with Fife College and the Scottish Prison Service.| Period | 22 Oct 2018 |
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| Event title | Where is 'science' in the history of psychiatry? |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |
Keywords
- history
- Psychiatry
- mental health
- mental disorders
- asylums
- prisons
- Science
Documents & Links
Related content
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Research output
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Madness and society in eighteenth-century Scotland
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Rights and wrongs in the confinement of the mentally incapable in eighteenth-century Scotland
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Explanations for death by suicide in northern Britain during the long eighteenth century
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The face of madness in eighteenth-century Scotland
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Punishing the dead? Suicide, lordship and community in Britain, 1500-1830
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Poor relief and the dangerous and criminal insane in Scotland, c.1740-1840
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A latent historiography? The case of psychiatry in Britain, 1500-1820
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Past and 'Pastism' in the history of psychiatry
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Institutional care for the insane and idiots in Scotland before 1820, part 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Autism in history. The case of Hugh Blair of Borgue, 1708-1765
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Activities
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'Prisoners or Patients?' The background and the context
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Where is 'science' in the history of psychiatry?
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar