Art amid the Bedlam

Art amid the Bedlam

Previous exhibitions have been about the brain, madness and modernity, sleeping and dreaming, and historian Mike Jay's High Society, the story of mind altering drugs. Jay, paired with Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, is now back at the Wellcome, with Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond. It tells the story of...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2016-10, Vol.388 (10054), p.1872-1873
1. Verfasser: Wessely, Simon
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Internal Medicine
Mental health care
Mental institutions
Museum exhibits
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Zusammenfassung:Previous exhibitions have been about the brain, madness and modernity, sleeping and dreaming, and historian Mike Jay's High Society, the story of mind altering drugs. Jay, paired with Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, is now back at the Wellcome, with Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond. It tells the story of one institution, the Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in 1247 and still going strong.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31812-8