The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.
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)
- 725/.520973 22
- RC445 .Y36 2007
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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.