Madness, architecture and the built environment : psychiatric spaces in historical context / edited by Leslie Topp, James E. Moran and Jonathan Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Topp, Leslie, 1969-

Moran, James E.

Andrews, Jonathan, 1961-

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 27.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Hospital buildings--Design and construction--History.

Hospital buildings.

Hospital architecture--Psychological aspects.

Hospital architecture.

Hospital Design and Construction--history.

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Environment Design.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Patients--psychology.

Psychological aspects.

Hospital buildings--Design and construction.

History.

Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction.

Medical Subjects:

Hospital Design and Construction--history.

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Environment Design.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Patients--psychology.

Physical Description:

ix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Interpreting psychiatric spaces / James Moran, Leslie Topp 1

Part I Madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context 17

2 Site and vantage: Sculptural decoration and spatial experience in early modern Dutch asylums / Jane Kromm 19

3 The architecture of confinement: Urban public asylums in England, 1750-1820 / Leonard Smith 41

4 Placing psychiatric practices: On the spatial configurations and contests of professional labour in late-nineteenth century Germany / Eric J. Engstrom 63

Part II Case studies in psychiatric space 83

5 A space for moral management: The York Retreat's influence on asylum design / Barry Edginton 85

6 Scaling the asylum: Three geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum (Craig Dunain) / Chris Philo 105

7 'This coy and secluded dwelling': Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane / Deborah E. B. Weiner 131

Part III Beyond the institution 149

8 Architectures of madness: Informal and formal spaces of treatment and care in nineteenth-century New Jersey / James Moran 151

9 Community spaces and psychiatric family care in Belgium, France, and Germany: A comparative study / Thomas Mueller 171

Part IV Race and space in colonial asylums 191

10 The great asylum laundry: Space, classification, and imperialism in Cape Town / Sally Swartz 193

11 Madness and colonial spaces-British India, c. 1800-1947 / Waltraud Ernst 215

Part V Architects and institutions 239

12 The modern mental hospital in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria: Psychiatric space and images of freedom and control / Leslie Topp 241

13 The architect and the pauper asylum in late nineteenth-century England: G. T. Hine's 1901 review of asylum space and planning / Jeremy Taylor 263

Part VI Spatial players: Professionals and patients 285

14 Controlling space, transforming visibility: Psychiatrists, nursing staff, violence, and the case of haematoma auris in German psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870 / Kai Sammet 287

15 'A small corner that's for myself: Space, place, and patients' experiences of mental health care, 1948-98 / Kerry Davies 305.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415375290

0415375290

OCLC:

71798097

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