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.”
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Hospitals written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Hospital construction with plans and bibliography 1893 Portfolio of plans the best British and foreign hospitals 1893 written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Asylum construction with plans and bibliography 1891 written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War written by Claire Hilton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental wellbeing of civilians during the war. It provides the first comprehensive account of wartime asylums in London, challenging the commonly held view that changes in psychiatric care for civilians post-war were linked mainly to soldiers’ experiences and treatment. Drawing extensively on archival and published sources, this book examines the impact of medical, scientific, political, cultural and social change on civilian asylums. It compares four asylums in London, each distinct in terms of their priorities and the diversity of their patients. Revealing the histories of the 100,000 civilian patients who were institutionalised during the First World War, this book offers new insights into decision-making and prioritisation of healthcare in times of austerity, and the myriad factors which inform this.
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Sir Henry Charles Burdett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Permeable Walls written by Graham Mooney and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book devoted to the history of hospital- and asylum-visiting covering the 18th to the late-20th centuries and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions.
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Their Origin History Construction Administration Management and Legislation With Plans of the Chief Medical Institutions Accurately Drawn to a Uniform Scale In Addition to Those of All the Hospitals of London In written by Henry C Burdett and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Vol 2 of 4 written by Henry C. Burdett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Vol. 2 of 4: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation; With Plans of the Chief Medical Institutions Accurately Drawn to an Uniform Scale; Asylum Construction, With Plans and Bibliography In the circumstances just mentioned it has been very difficult to decide what plans to give in this work. It seemed a useless task to repeat examples of the four types, because in effect it would only amount to the reproduction of almost identical plans, though each institution would of course bear its proper name. We think it well to state this by way of explanation, as some disappoint ment might otherwise be caused by the fact that the actual plans given in this volume are not more mimerous than they will be found to be. Our answer must be that it was quite unnecessary to publish mere plans as such, and we feel that to follow any other course than the one adopted would not only have been a waste of money and space, but a hindrance rather than a help to the practical alienist and architect. Anyonewho wishes to find out on what plan a particular asylum is constructed, or where a particular plan may be Seen, will be able to ascertain the fact by reference to the index, where are given the names of the institutions, and in each case the page on which the institution is classified under its own proper type. In giving a model plan, our object is to set forth in as intelligible a way as possible the main features of each portion of an asylum constructed upon modern ideas, with a due regard to the limits imposed by economical considerations. We do not claim com pleteness for our plan, but we do feel that it includes all the most important features, and that any institution constructed upon this model would enable the medical superintendent to provide adequately by classification for the needs of the majority, at any rate, of the patients intrusted to his care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Most Haunted Hospitals written by Richard Estep and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paramedic and paranormal investigator takes readers on a terrifying tour of haunted hospitals, asylums, and medical facilities across the globe. Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. When we consider what has taken place behind the closed doors of hospitals since the inception of the medical profession, it should come as no surprise to discover that so many of them are haunted. In The World's Most Haunted Hospitals, paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating—and chilling—stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe, including: The apparitions at an old Utah hospital, now a nursing home, whose appearances are said to predict a patient's death. The Italian island referred to by locals as "the gateway to Hell," where the spirits of thousands of plague victims prowl the streets. The terrifying phenomena that keep visitors away from an abandoned airbase hospital in the Philippines. The ghostly nurse who has haunted the corridors of a London hospital for generations.
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World Asylums written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asylums written by Erving Goffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self. Each of the essays in this book were intended to focus on the same issue--the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Each chapter approaches the central issue from a different vantage point, each introduction drawing upon a different source in sociology and having little direct relation to the other chapters. This method of presenting material may be irksome, but it allows the reader to pursue the main theme of each paper analytically and comparatively past the point that would be allowable in chapters of an integrated book. If sociological concepts are to be treated with affection, each must be traced back to where it best applies, followed from there wherever it seems to lead, and pressed to disclose the rest of its family.
