Corinne Manning
Corinne Manning
Established in 1887, Kew Cottages was Australia's oldest and largest specialised institution for people with intellectual disability. Kew Cottages was originally designed as a place of benevolent care and education for children. However its...
Divine service, music, sport, and recreation as medicinal in Australian asylums 1860s-1945 [0.03%]
十九至二十世纪澳大利亚精神病院中的宗教、音乐、体育和娱乐医疗化(1860-1945)
Dolly MacKinnon
Dolly MacKinnon
Australian asylum records (circa 1860 to circa 1945) demonstrate that medical staff went to great lengths to provide recreation to suitable patients. This article examines how the demarcation of Australian institutional spaces along gender ...
John Weaver,David Wright
John Weaver
This article contributes to the history of psychiatry by examining the practice of institutional and community psychiatry in early-twentieth-century Queensland. The source material for this article emerged from a larger project on the histo...
Lee-Ann Monk
Lee-Ann Monk
Contemporary representations of nineteenth-century attendants were often negative, finding fault with both their character and conduct. Historians were inclined initially to agree, concluding that attendants were 'recruited from the dregs o...
Families, insanity, and the psychiatric institution in Australia and New Zealand, 1860-1914 [0.03%]
1860-1914年澳大利亚和新西兰的精神病院中的家庭与精神病患者
Catharine Coleborne
Catharine Coleborne
International historians have begun to challenge the view that the nineteenth-century psychiatric hospital was a place of horrors and custody, and have shown that families were sometimes intimate with the institutions of the past, often par...
Australian asylum architecture through German eyes: Kew, Melbourne, 1867 [0.03%]
德眼看澳式收容所建筑：墨尔本基尤难民营，1867年
Elizabeth Malcolm
Elizabeth Malcolm
Kew Asylum in Melbourne, which by the 1890s was the largest in Australia, was planned in the 1850s, built on a prominent site in the 1860s, and opened in the early 1870s with accommodation for over 500 patients. Costing nearly 200,000 pound...
Seeking refuge: Why asylum facilities might still be relevant for mental health care services today [0.03%]
求庇护：为什么收容所设施仍然是今天精神健康护理服务的相关选择
Stephen Garton
Stephen Garton
This article reassesses the history of mental asylums in New South Wales, arguing that far from being 'cemeteries for the still breathing,' Victorian and Edwardian asylums served multiple purposes, providing genuinely therapeutic conditions...
Mark Finnane
Mark Finnane
Deinstitutionalisation describes the process in which, throughout the western world, psychiatric hospitals discharged most of their patients and most often closed their doors. It coincided with an influential rethinking of the status of the...
John T Andrews
John T Andrews
Nuclear medicine is defined, and its development as a specialty in Victoria from the 1940s to the 1990s recorded, with the developing use of radioisotopes in investigations and treatment. The combined efforts of medical, scientific, and tec...
Indigenous health in a global frame: from community development to human rights [0.03%]
全球视野下的土著居民健康问题：从社区发展到人权保护
Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson
This essay explores the shift from 'human rights' to community development' in the framing of Koori (or Indigenous) health policy research at the University of Melbourne in the 1990s. It provides an overview of the recent history of rights-...