Wednesday 15 August 2018, 10.00AM to 1.00pm
The asylum: refuge or reformatory; repository for the psychologically unacceptable or morally and environmentally therapeutic; architectural signifier of social control or self-serving total institution of psychiatric excess? This ‘taster course’ explores the history and meaning of the asylum for the mad and the medical profession.
Dr Peter Morrall
Location: King's Manor, Exhibition Square