Suitcases as symbols of the struggle for dignity and civil rights of people with mental illnesses
More than a simple symbol, the caduceus, inherited from Antiquity, became the emblem of pharmacy as we know it today.
Devised to control the female body, the corset has had, between the 18th and the 20th century, many detractors.
The appearance of new syringe models in the 1850s questions the conditions of the development of medical techniques.
The relationship to sugar in our society is sustainably anchored on a difference between genders.
The surgical or prophylactic mask was mainstreamed against the background of brutal epidemic episodes (Third Plague Pandemic, “Spanish flu”…) which kickstarted the development of public protection policies against diseases.
Time-measurement devices in clinical and experimental settings have historically tended to pathologize mental “slowness” and normalize “speed” as a signifier of mental health.
There are policies of the dream, as illustrated by the different ways of apprehending the dreams in the Amerindian populations.
The bed is not a simple object structuring the hospital space. It is also a therapeutic instrument and an indicator for public authorities to guide hospital policy.
In psychiatric institutions, clothing is a tool uniformizing the patients and the hospital staff in support of therapeutics, hygiene and order.
