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

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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 e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yanni, Carla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Colección:Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
Temas:
Asylums > United States > Design and construction > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > United States > Design and construction > History.
Hospital architecture > United States > History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospital Design and Construction > history
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > États-Unis > Conception et construction > Histoire.
Architecture hospitalière > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Hospital architecture
Psychiatric hospitals > Design and construction
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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