Spaces Turning into Places: Mental vs. Institutional Places and Spaces in Colin Thubron’s A Cruel Madness
Psychiatric hospitals by and large fulfil a dual function: historically, they derive from societies' need to isolate those individuals not conforming to the established morals (Foucault, Madness 61). In the eighteenth century, conceptions of madness had taken on notions of contagion and disease...
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University of Edinburgh
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/648 |