LEADER 03355nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910461843303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8214-4426-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187367 035 $a(EBL)1773380 035 $a(OCoLC)889675573 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611354 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611354 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10665987 035 $a(PQKB)11412220 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1773380 035 $a(OCoLC)782056216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17797 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1773380 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539260 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187367 100 $a20110930d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsylum on the hill$b[electronic resource] $ehistory of a healing landscape /$fKatherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding 210 $aAthens, OH $cOhio University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1973-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-213) and index. 327 $aForeword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Moral Treatment Experiment; Chapter Two: Patients; Chapter Three: Architecture; Chapter Four: Politics; Chapter Five: Landscape; Chapter Six: Caregivers; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in Southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River Valley responded to a national impulse to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Although ultimately doomed by overcrowding and overshadowed by the rise of new models of psychiatry, for twenty years the therapeutic community at Athens pursued moral treatment therapy with energy and optimism. Ziff's fresh presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aState hospitals$zOhio$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aPsychiatric hospitals$zOhio$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aPsychiatric hospital care$xHistory 606 $aMental illness$xTreatment$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aState hospitals$xHistory. 615 0$aPsychiatric hospitals$xHistory. 615 0$aPsychiatric hospital care$xHistory. 615 0$aMental illness$xTreatment$xHistory. 676 $a362.2109771 700 $aZiff$b Katherine K$0848609 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461843303321 996 $aAsylum on the hill$91895409 997 $aUNINA