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 Asylums 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 Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by 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 written by 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 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 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 Hospitals and Asylums of the World Hospitals written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 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 Hansebooks. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Lond. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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 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 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 Their Origin History Construction Administration Management and Legislation with Plans of the Chief Medical written by Henry C. Burdett and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Hospitals and Asylums of the World written by Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1891 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 1893 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
