February 2016
University of Huddersfield, England
The aim of this conference is to further explore and reveal how the voices of those living with and treating mental illness have been recorded and expressed. We hope to consider recent developments in these areas with a view to facilitating an interdisciplinary discourse around historical perspectives of mental health and illness.
The organisers invite proposals for 20 minutes on the themes of voices of madness and mental ill health under headings including but not limited to:
- Oral history and testimony
- Mental ill-health and community care
- Mental ill-health and institutional histories
- The role of informal carers
- The growth of the mental health professions
- Mental ill health and the voice(s) of adolescentsand children
- Museums and the ‘heritage’ of mental ill health
- The literature (fiction and non-fiction) of mental ill health
- Language of madness (if not covered by ‘heritage’)
- Dissenting voices
- Appropriation of voices
- Absent voices
- Voices and art
- Voices and stigma
- The voices of mental ill-health on TV and radio
- Individual, activist and social media
For more information contact Dr Rob Ellis (r.ellis@hud.ac.uk), Dr Sarah Kendal (s.kendal@hud.ac.uk) or Dr Steven Taylor (s.taylor@hud.ac.uk). To submit a paper proposal (250 words maximum) or express an interest, please contact Steve Taylor by 14 March 2015.
Source: American Association for the History of Medicine
Read about mental health in HCS-Manguinhos:
Read more about mental health in HCS-Manguinhos:
Gómez, María José Correa. De la Casa de Orates al juzgado: pericia alienista y evaluación judicial de la locura en Santiago de Chile hacia 1860. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2013, vol.20, no.2, p.571-585. ISSN 0104-5970
Bianchi, Eugenia. Infancia, normalización y salud mental: figuras históricas y encadenamientos actuales en la formulación del trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2015, vol.22, no.3, p.761-779. ISSN 0104-5970
Macías, Francisco Javier Saavedra. Cómo encontrar un lugar en el mundo: explorando experiencias de recuperación de personas con trastornos mentales graves. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2011, vol.18, no.1, p.121-139. ISSN 0104-5970
Tenório, Fernando. A reforma psiquiátrica brasileira, da década de 1980 aos dias atuais: história e conceitos. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2002, vol.9, no.1, p.25-59. ISSN 0104-5970
Huertas, Rafael. Las obsesiones antes de Freud: historia y clínica. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2014, vol.21, no.4, p.1397-1415. ISSN 0104-597
