Im Dialog. Lesende Patientinnen
In Dialogue. Reading Patients. What significance could the practice of reading have for inmates of mental asylums at the beginning of the 20th century? In which way was the experience of reading defined by the closure of the place and by its restricted ways of communication? And where did the inmate...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Historische Anthropologie. - Köln : Böhlau Verlag, 1993. - 26(2018), 1, Seite 8-28 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
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2018
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Historische Anthropologie |
| Zusammenfassung: | In Dialogue. Reading Patients. What significance could the practice of reading have for inmates of mental asylums at the beginning of the 20th century? In which way was the experience of reading defined by the closure of the place and by its restricted ways of communication? And where did the inmates get their reading matter? The article assumes that especially the reading of a newspaper or a magazine was a way for patients to enter into a dialogue with the external world, a way of moving, so to say. The article links a patient-oriented history of psychiatry to approaches from historical reading research. |
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| ISSN: | 0942-8704 |