Transforming the treatment : architecture and moral management -- Establishing the type : the development of Kirkbride plan hospitals and hope for an architectural cure -- Breaking down : the cottage plan for asylums -- Building up : hospitals for the insane after the Civil War -- Conclusion : the changing spaces of mental illness
Summary
Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from Americas earliest purpose-built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. Generously illustrated, The Architecture of Madness is a fresh and original look at the American medical establishments century-long preoccupation with therapeutic architecture as a way to cure social ills
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index
