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Author:
Yanni, Carla.
Title:
The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
xi, 191 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Asylums--United States--History.--History.
Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History.--History.
Hospital architecture--United States--History.
Notes:
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.
Series:
Architecture, landscape, and American culture
ISBN:
0816649405 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816649402 (pb : alk. paper)
0816649391 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816649396 (hc : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)81252721
LCCN:
2007003766
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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