The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.

Main entry:

Yanni, Carla.

Title & Author:

The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Transforming the treatment : architecture and moral management -- 2. Establishing the type : the development of Kirkbride plan hospitals and hope for an architectural cure -- 3. Breaking down : the cottage plan for asylums -- 4. Building up : hospitals for the insane after the Civil War -- Conclusion : the changing spaces of mental illness -- Appendix A : Note on terminology -- Appendix B : Occupations of patients in 1850 -- Appendix C : Cost of lunatic asylums in 1877 -- Appendix D : Comparative sizes of asylums, 1770-1872 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

Illustrated throughout, Yanni offers a fresh and original look at the American medical establishment's century-long preoccupation with therapeutic architecture as a way to cure social ills.

Resources:
Table of contents
Titelblatt und Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780816649396 (alk. paper)
0816649391 (alk. paper)
9780816649402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816649405 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Asylums United States Design and construction History.
Psychiatric hospitals United States Design and construction History.
Hospital architecture United States History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric history
Hospital Design and Construction history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hôpitaux psychiatriques États-Unis Conception et construction Histoire.
Architecture hospitalière États-Unis Histoire.
Médecine Histoire 19e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
psychiatric hospitals.
hospitals (buildings for health facility)
asylums (welfare buildings)
Hospital architecture
Psychiatric hospitals Design and construction
Architektur
Psychiatrische Klinik
Hospitals, Psychiatric History.
Hôpitaux psychiatriques
19e siècle
Architecture américaine
Hospitals, Psychiatric history United States.
History, 19th Century United States.
History, 20th Century United States.
Hospital Design and Construction history United States.
United States
USA
Etats-Unis
Hospital Design and Construction.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.

Insane asylums in the United States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254052
Call No.: BIB 183899
Status: Available

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