Village and colony asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914 : environmental approaches to the treatment of the insane in Edwardian institutions / Gillian Allmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allmond, Gillian, author.

Series:

BAR British series ; 665.

BAR British series ; 665

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatric hospitals--Ireland--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals--Germany--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History--20th century.

Psychiatric hospitals--Ireland--Design and construction--History--20th century.

Psychiatric hospitals--Germany--Design and construction--History--20th century.

Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction.

Germany.

Great Britain.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

This text analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which environments were seen as therapeutic. An innovative type of asylum layout - the village or colony asylum - is considered in detail. Gillian Allmond offers an original approach to asylum analysis, using field observation, documents and published materials to connect asylum materiality to contemporary discourses of health and poverty.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 18, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407357591

140735759X

OCLC:

1291225212