NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

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

By: Series: Architecture, landscape, and American culturePublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.Description: xi, 191 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780816649396 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816649402 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 725/.520973 22
LOC classification:
  • RC445 .Y36 2007
Contents:
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 to 1872.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RC445 .Y36 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 33039001263291

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 to 1872.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha