Rawling Katherine D B
Med Humanit. 2017 Jun;43(2):99-100. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2016-011092.
The links between mental state and art in all its various forms and media have long been of interest to historians, critics, artists, patients and doctors. Photographs of patients constitute an extensive but largely unexplored archive that can be used to recover patient experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The camera and the photograph became tools to communicate information about mental ill health between doctors, their patients and their colleagues. They were published in textbooks and journals, exhibited, exchanged and pasted into medical case books alongside case notes. But they were also used by patients to communicate their own experiences, identity and sense of self. This article uses published and case book photographs from c. 1885-1910 to examine the networks of communication between different stakeholders and discourses.
长期以来，精神状态与各种形式和媒介的艺术之间的联系一直吸引着历史学家、评论家、艺术家、患者和医生。患者的照片构成了一个庞大但大多未被探索的档案库，可用于重现19世纪末和20世纪初患者的经历。相机和照片成为了医生、患者及其同事之间传达精神疾病信息的工具。它们被发表在教科书和期刊上，进行展览、交流，并与病例记录一起粘贴到医疗病例簿中。但患者也用它们来传达自己的经历、身份和自我意识。本文利用约1885年至1910年期间发表的照片和病例簿照片，来审视不同利益相关者和话语之间的交流网络。
