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This 4 page paper reviews the oral history surrounding the infamous Scottish institution known as Lennox Hospital. The author argues that the oral history compliments the clinical records that are available for the institution. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: AM2_PpanthLennoxHsp.rtf
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of reviewing clinical records. While they are typically excellent at providing the technical details of an event or time, they do little to show the human side of it.
The records from Lennox Castle Hospital are exemplary of this fact. They list patients and staff but just cover the bare details of events and circumstances that affected
each. We might be provided with how much a staff member was paid for his services but the personnel records would reveal little about whether or not he liked
his job. We might find out why a particular patient was admitted to this Scottish institution for the learning disabled, we might even find out precisely how much medicine
they were administered and why, but patient records would reveal little or nothing about the patients day to day experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Fortunately, the oral record reveals
considerably more about such things. Howard Mitchell is just one researcher that has made use of that fact. Mitchel approaches history from a different level than sorting through the
abbreviated and sometimes misleading written record. He talks to people that lived and worked at the hospital to reveal the real story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl,
a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides considerable insight as to what went on there. He noted that the institution was
run much as though it were the personal estate of one of the superintendents, that the superintendent used the staff to fulfill his own personal needs such as working in
his personal garden. The superintendents wife even gathered flowers from the Castle garden whenever she so desired. Sprowl also recalled that over half of his wages were taken
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