Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0771163

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0771163

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A history of psychiatric institutionalisation and community care in Australia, 1830s-1990s. A vigorous debate is underway in Australia currently over the policy of closing mental institutions and caring for the mentally ill in the community. Whereas doctors, politicians and journalists have contributed to this debate, regularly resorting to history to bolster their arguments, historians themselves have had relatively little to say. A genuinely national history of mental health care simply does not exist. This study provides that comprehensive history, in the belief that policy making in such a vital area of health cannot be undertaken effectively without an informed understanding of the successes and failures of the last 150 years.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $238,668.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Mental Health

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mental health | Public health not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Mental Health | Mental health | Public health not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia'S Past

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