'That awful place was home': reflections on the contested meanings of Craig Dunain Asylum

Parr, Hester and Philo, Chris and Burns, Nicola (2003) 'That awful place was home': reflections on the contested meanings of Craig Dunain Asylum. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 119 (4). pp. 341-360. ISSN 0036-9225 (https://doi.org/10.1080/00369220318737183)

Abstract

The paper explores a particular Scottish asylum geography (Craig Dunain Hospital near Inverness) as a meaningful social space. Drawing on archival evidence and combined with contemporary patient and staff voices, the contested meanings of this institution are discussed. In particular, patient narratives reveal both positive and negative assessments of internal and external asylum spaces. Changing feelings about the asylum are argued to be related to matters of geography, and are conceived in terms of distance from and proximity to the institution.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	567
  Dates:	Date Event 2003 Published
  Subjects:	Social Sciences > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
  Department:	Strathclyde Business School > Law School (SBS)
  Depositing user:	Miss Rosemary O'Hare
  Date deposited:	22 Mar 2006
  Last modified:	29 Apr 2025 15:15
  Related URLs:	http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/rsgs/SGJ/
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/567