Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context
Redaktion: Moran, James; Andrews, Jonathan; Topp, Leslie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume of essays devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135653156
• Artikelnr.: 60150928

Autorenporträt

Leslie Topp is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London.She is the author of Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and articles on the connections between modern architecture and psychiatry. James E. Moran is Associate Professor in History at the University of Prince Edward Island.His publications include Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario (2000), and with David Wright, Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (2006). Jonathan Andrews is a lecturer in the School of Historical Studies and Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University. His publications include (with A. Scull) Undertaker of the Mind and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (University of California Press, 2001, 2003), and (with R. Porter et al.) The History of Bethlem (Routledge, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

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