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Images of madness. The end of mental hospitals illustrated through photographs

June 21, 2004 | Media and Technology
The use of photography in the field of psychiatry is an eloquent example of the complex evolution of the relationship between science, communication and society. The research that follows analyses the development of such a relationship in a crucial period of the history of psychiatry: the 1970s. That was the time that witnessed the revolution of a science which admitted the failure of its methods and "instruments", mental hospitals. That was also the time when a profound change took place in the communicative methods of photography related to this uncertain field of knowledge. A group of photographers, driven by the political situation of the time, covered the end of mental hospitals.

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  • Federica Manzoli
    Author
    SISSA
  • Citation

    ISSN : 1824-2049
    Publication Name: Journal of Science Communication
    Volume: 3
    Number: 2
    Resource Type: Research Products
    Discipline: Art, music, and theater | Health and medicine | History/policy/law | Social science and psychology
    Audience: Scientists
    Environment Type: Media and Technology

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