Community research archive
Research
PhD Research thesis by Dr Doris Kordes
Kordes, D. 2009 The arts of care in an asylum and a community 1925-2004: Kenmore Hospital, New South Wales and Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, Australian National University
Abstract Summary: Doris Kordes examines changing approaches to mental health care in twentieth-century Australia, comparing Kenmore Hospital in New South Wales with community care in the Australian Capital Territory. The thesis identifies three care regimes—custodial “Herd Care,” the “Therapeutic Community,” and “Community Care”—and explores how landscapes, institutions, families, communities, and care relationships shaped the lives and freedoms of those receiving care.
PhD Research Thesis by John Raftery
Raftery, John. 2000. 'Nothing new to medical science' : the construction of war neurosis and the life course outcomes of WW2 veterans, University of Adelaide
Abstract: Documents and evaluates the experiences and life outcomes of a sample of WW2 veterans against a background of ideas about the neuroses of war, thereby examining the history of medical ideas about the psychological casualties of war, and the history of the lives of participants of war. The medical framework and social context that underpin the construction of war experience is critically examined in this thesis.
Photographic study of Kenmore, 2020
Lost Collective: Kenmore Asylum — a photographic study of Kenmore in 2020, documenting the decay of its heritage buildings.