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Book The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital

Download or read book The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital written by George W. Dowdall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.

Book Buffalo State Psychiatric Hospital

Download or read book Buffalo State Psychiatric Hospital written by Patricia F Kautz and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper, written in 1956 and reproduced here in its original form, gives the reader a rare invitation to view the day-to-day activities of a functioning New York State hospital that cared for people with mental illness. It is not a radical exposé but rather a real-life look at a hospital from the inside. This is a hands-on document that reveals the activities of a social worker and the contributions of social work to beginning the changes in a mental health system that was starting to emphasize more community work with patients and families. Through the detailed descriptions of the hospital processes the reader gains a unique view of the operations of a large-burdened mental hospital in the 1950s. If you ever wondered about what was right and what was changing with the care system for the mentally ill, this book is a good place to begin; it's a real report from the confines of the system.

Book Buffalo State Hospital  A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow

Download or read book Buffalo State Hospital A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow written by Museum of Disability History and published by People Ink Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow is a powerful treatise on mental health care in the Western New York area in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book and its thought-provoking images show an institution in transition. Historic photography shows the building in its bygone splendor as envisioned by prominent American architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, coupled with modern "ruins" photography by Ian Ference, which allows the viewer a glimpse of the forsaken wasteland that has been locked away, not to be seen. Do not get too distracted by these photographs of waste and destruction for they are only a piece of the story, however with the discovery of this collection of hidden images, we are able to provide the reader with a rare perspective of this once noble institution. Also included in this book are powerful testimonies from key stakeholders from this now shuttered institution, including patients, employees, and neighbors of the facility.

Book Buffalo State Hospital

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Ference
  • Publisher : Museum of Disability History
  • Release : 2016-08-24
  • ISBN : 9780986218217
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Buffalo State Hospital written by Ian Ference and published by Museum of Disability History. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow is a powerful treatise on mental health care in the Western New York area in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book and its thought-provoking images show an institution in transition. Historic photography shows the building in its bygone splendor as envisioned by prominent American architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, coupled with modern ruins photography by Ian Ference, which allows the viewer a glimpse of the forsaken wasteland that has been locked away, not to be seen. Do not get too distracted by these photographs of waste and destruction for they are only a piece of the story, however with the discovery of this collection of hidden images, we are able to provide the reader with a rare perspective of this once noble institution. Also included in this book are powerful testimonies from key stakeholders from this now shuttered institution, including patients, employees, and neighbors of the facility.

Book Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane written by Buffalo State Hospital and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The State Hospital Quarterly

Download or read book The State Hospital Quarterly written by New York (State). State Hospitals Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A service journal containing minutes of the conferences of the Commission with the officials of state hospitals, statistical data, announcements etc.

Book The Lives They Left Behind

Download or read book The Lives They Left Behind written by Darby Penney and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.

Book The Architecture of Madness

Download or read book The Architecture of Madness written by Carla Yanni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Book Buffalo State Hospital

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Ference
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-07-22
  • ISBN : 9780986218293
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Buffalo State Hospital written by Ian Ference and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow is a powerful treatise on mental health care in the Western New York area in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book and its thought-provoking images show an institution in transition. Historic photography shows the building in its bygone splendor as envisioned by prominent American architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, coupled with modern ruins photography by Ian Ference, which allows the viewer a glimpse of the forsaken wasteland that has been locked away, not to be seen. Do not get too distracted by these photographs of waste and destruction for they are only a piece of the story, however with the discovery of this collection of hidden images, we are able to provide the reader with a rare perspective of this once noble institution. Also included in this book are powerful testimonies from key stakeholders from this now shuttered institution, including patients, employees, and neighbors of the facility.

Book Annual Report  July 1     to June 30

Download or read book Annual Report July 1 to June 30 written by New York (State). State Hospital Commission and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report  Issues 40 47

    Book Details:
  • Author : Buffalo State Hospital
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781021366863
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Annual Report Issues 40 47 written by Buffalo State Hospital and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed annual report about the activities, challenges, achievements, and financial performance of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, later known as the Buffalo State Hospital, during the years 1883-1890, shedding light on the history of mental health care in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Asylum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Payne
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2009-09-04
  • ISBN : 0262013495
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Asylum written by Christopher Payne and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”

Book Annual Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : New York (State). State Hospital Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State). State Hospital Commission and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1895/96-1919/20 include annual reports of the various stae hospitals (1908/09-1919/20 summaries only).

Book The State Hospital Quarterly

    Book Details:
  • Author : New York (State). State Hospital Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 824 pages

Download or read book The State Hospital Quarterly written by New York (State). State Hospital Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pan American Exposition

Download or read book The Pan American Exposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Other Dark Matter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lina Zeldovich
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-11-19
  • ISBN : 022661557X
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Other Dark Matter written by Lina Zeldovich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of human waste. How I learned to love the excrement; The early history of human excreta; Treasure nigh soil as if it were gold!; The water closet dilemma and the sewage farm paradigm; Germs, fertilizer, and the poop police -- The present: a sludge revolution in progress. The great sewage time bomb and the redistribution of nutrients on the planet; Loowatt, a loo that turns waste into watts; The crap that cooks your dinner and container-based sanitation; HomeBiogas : your personal digester in a box; Made in New York; Lystek, the home of sewage smoothies; How DC water makes biosolids BLOOM; From biosolids to biofuels -- The future of medicine and other things; Poop : the best (and cheapest medicine; Looking where the sun doesn't shine; From the kindness of one's gut : an insider look into stool banks -- Afterword : breathing poetry into poop.