Events: detail
Bedlam
- Speaker:
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Jonathan Andrews, historian of psychiatry, Newcastle University
Catharine Arnold, author of Bedlam: London and its mad.
Nicky Imrie, Wellcome Collection
- Starts:
- April 23, 2009 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- April 23, 2009 at 08:30 pm
- Location:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
While Viennese artists, architects, psychiatrists and patients were working together, Londoners were developing one of the oldest surviving institutions caring for the mentally ill: the Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam. Join our guests to find out more about what was happening in psychiatry in London and Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Website:
- Bedlam
