Archive for October, 2011
For all the nerds among our readers, I have created a twitter list (http://twitter.com/#!/MajBen/science-cleveland2011), which allows you to follow people tweeting from the HSS, SHOT, or 4S conferences in Cleveland (Ohio).
At least one of the co-editor from h-madness (@MajBen) will also try to tweet from the conference.
Laure Murat, L’homme qui se prenait pour Napoléon. Pour une histoire politique de la folie, Paris, Gallimard, 2011, 379 p.
For more please click here.
In January 2010, we launched h-madness. Today we got the 100 000th hit on our website. Thanks to the readers, contributors and commenters.
Psychiatric Narratives Workshop
Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, 23 November, 13.00 – 17.00
Organized as part of CISSMI’s “Off Sick” programme of events, the workshop explores the different types of illness narration through an examination of psychiatric narratives and the problems of uncovering the patient’s voice in psychiatric institutions. Uncovering these voices has often proved problematic, and the workshop seeks to explore institutional psychiatric care from the inside out. The workshop features a series of papers by historians and clinicians on problems of evidence and the ways in which they have used psychiatric case notes and fiction to understand the experiences of psychiatric patients and the nature of psychiatric institutions.
PROGRAMME
13.00 – 14.00 Registration and Lunch
14.00 – 14.15 Introduction
14.15 – 15.00 Pamela Michael (Bangor): “Patients, Imagination and Welsh
literature”
15.00 – 15.45 Peter Barham (Oxford): “In pursuit of the imperial
lunatic, c.1860-1940: some problems of evidence”
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee
16.15 – 17.00 Rhys Thomas (Swansea): “Clinicians and case notes: the modern
perspective”
17.00 – 17.15 Closing Discussion
Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the workshop will be held at the Glamorgan
Archive (Cardiff) on Wednesday 23rd November 2011. Although a free event, to
register please contact Dr Keir Waddington (waddingtonk@cardiff.ac.uk)
Details of where to find the Glamorgan Archives can be found here.
Further details can be found here.
Radio Q, which is animated by students from several German universities, has produced a feature on the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Heidelberg (SPK). The SPK was one of the most radical antipsychiatric movements in Europe.
To listen to the feature, click here.
To get more information on the SPK, click here.
