Architecture of Madness Insane Asylums in the United States

Name: Architecture of Madness Insane Asylums in the United States
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ISBN: 9780816649402

ISBN-10: 0816649405

ISBN-13: 9780816649402

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carla Yanni

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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums-ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles-were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment-architecture in particular-was the most effective means of treatment. nbsp; InThe Architecture of Madness,Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from Americarsquo;s earliest…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




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



Note on terminology



Occupations of patients in 1850



Cost of lunatic asylums in 1877



Comparative sizes of asylums, 1770-1872