Participant Info
- First Name
- Natalie
- Last Name
- Mullen
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- n.mullen2@lancaster.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Lancaster University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Psychiatry, Asylums, Patient Experience, Mental Illness, Medicine, Institutions.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am in the final year of my AHRC funded PhD at Lancaster University. My current research seeks to understand the experiences of individuals who were confined as patients in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century asylums. My research draws on medical records, objects, photographs, architecture and spatial analyses to explore the ways in which patients rejected, coped with or engaged with medical authority. I am particularly interested in the relationship between medical authority and patient agency, illness narratives, the material cultures of medicine, emotional experiences of medical treatment and the spatial context of medical encounters.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @nmullenhist
- Country Focus
- England
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Material Culture, Medicine
