Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.
Contents:
Transforming the treatment : architecture and moral management -- Establishing the type : the development of Kirkbride plan hospitals and hope for an architectural cure -- Breaking down : the cottage plan for asylums -- Building up : hospitals for the insane after the Civil War -- Conclusion : the changing spaces of mental illness.
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