| Description |
ix,346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine |
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Routledge studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Interpreting psychiatric spaces: madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context / James Moran and Leslie Topp -- Site and vantage: sculptural decoration and spatial experience in early modern Dutch asylums / Jane Kromm -- The architecture of confinement: urban public asylums in England, 1750-1820 / Leonard D. Smith -- Placing psychiatric practices: on the spatial configurations and contests of professional labour in late-nineteenth century Germany / Eric J. Engstrom -- A space for moral management: the York Retreat's influence on asylum design / Barry Edginton -- Scaling the asylum: three geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum (Craig Dunain) / Chris Philo -- "This coy and secluded dwelling": Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane / Deborah E.B. Weiner -- The architecture of madness: informal and formal spaces of treatment and care in nineteenth-century New Jersey / James Moran -- |
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-- Community spaces and psychiatric family care in Belgium, France, and Germany: a comparative study / Thomas Mueller -- The Great Asylum laundry: space, classification, and imperialism in Cape Town / Sally Swartz -- Madness and colonial spaces: British India, c. 1800-1947 / Waltraud Ernst -- The modern mental hospital in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria: psychiatric space and images of freedom and control / Leslie Topp -- The architect and the Pauper Asylum in late nineteenth-century England: G.T. Hine's 1901 review of asylum space and planning / Jeremy Taylor -- Controlling space, transforming visibility: psychiatrists, nursing staff, violence, and the case of haematoma auris in German psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870 / Kai Sammet -- "A small corner that's for myself": space, place and patients' experiences of mental health care, 1948-1998 / Kerry Davies |
| Summary |
"This volume of papers is devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities." -- Publisher description |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospitals -- Design and construction -- History.
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Hospital buildings -- Design and construction -- History.
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Hospital architecture -- Psychological aspects.
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Hospital Design and Construction -- history.
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
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Environment Design.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Patients -- psychology.
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| Author |
Topp, Leslie, 1969-
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Moran, James E.
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Andrews, Jonathan, 1961-
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| LC no. |
2006031352 |
| ISBN |
9780415375290 hardback alkaline paper |
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0415375290 hardback alkaline paper |
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