Madeline Kearin Ryan

A Refuge of Cure or Care

The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane

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Produktbeschreibung

In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781793643810
• ISBN-10: 1793643814
• Artikelnr.: 61891185

Autorenporträt

Madeline Kearin Ryan is archivist at the Worcester Historical Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "A State of Conscious and Permanent Visibility": Sight as an
Instrument of Cure and Control
Chapter 2: "As Syllable from Sound": The Sonic Dimensions of Confinement
Chapter 3: The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain
Chapter 4: Dirty Bread, Forced Feeding, and Tea Parties: The Uses and
Abuses of Food
Chapter 5: "Curious Relics" and "Drafty Corridors": The Material World of
the Asylum