The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States /
Carla Yanni.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
- xi, 191 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
- Architecture, landscape, and American culture .
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.
Asylums--Design and construction--History.--United States Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction--History.--United States Hospital architecture--History.--United States