Madness, architecture and the built environment: psychiatric spaces in historical context
- United States of America -- Routledge -- 2011
- ix, 346p.
1. Introduction: Interpreting Psychiatric Spaces - Madhouses, Asylums and Hospitals in Context
2. Sculptural Decoration and Spatial Experience in Early Modern Dutch Asylums
3. The Architecture of Confinement: Urban Public Asylums in England, 1750-1820
4. Placing Psychiatric Practices: On the Spatial Configurations and Contests of Professional Labour in Late-Nineteenth Century Germany - Case Studies in Psychiatric Space
5. A Space for Moral Management: The York Retreat’s Influence on Asylum Design
6. Scaling the Asylum: Three Geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum
7. This Coy and Secluded Dwelling: Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane - Beyond the Institution
8. The Architecture of Madness: Informal and Formal Spaces of Treatment and Care in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
9. Community Spaces and Psychiatric Family Care in Belgium, France and Germany: A Comparative Study -Race and Space in Colonial Asylums
10. The Great Asylum Laundry: Space, Classification and Imperialism in Cape Town
11. Waltraud Ernst, Madness and Colonial Spaces – British India, c. 1800-1947 - Architects and Institutions
12. The Modern Mental Hospital in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany and Austria: Psychiatric Space and Images of Freedom and Control
13. The Architect and the Pauper Asylum in Late Nineteenth-Century England: G. T. Hine's 1901 Review of Asylum Space and Planning - Spatial Players: Professionals and Patients
14. Controlling Space, Transforming Visibility: Psychiatrists, Nursing Staff, Violence and the Case of Haematoma Auris in German Psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870
15. ‘A Small Corner That’s For Myself’: Space, Place and Patients’ Experiences of Mental Health Care, 1948-1998
Devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space, this volume of papers will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities
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