'That awful place was home': reflections on the contested meanings of Craig Dunain Asylum
Burns, Nicola and Parr, Hester and Philo, Chris (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
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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: DateEvent2003PublishedKeywords: mental health, asylum, proximity, meaning, geographic studies, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform , Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine, Geography, Planning and Development, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being Subjects: Social Sciences > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive MedicineDepartment: Strathclyde Business School > Law School (SBS) Depositing user: Miss Rosemary O'Hare Date deposited: 22 Mar 2006 Last modified: 19 May 2023 01:00 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/567