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Asylum on the hill [[electronic resource] ] : history of a healing landscape / / Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding



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Autore: Ziff Katherine K Visualizza persona
Titolo: Asylum on the hill [[electronic resource] ] : history of a healing landscape / / Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, OH, : Ohio University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 362.2109771
Soggetto topico: State hospitals - Ohio - Athens - History
Psychiatric hospitals - Ohio - Athens - History
Psychiatric hospital care - History
Mental illness - Treatment - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-213) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Foreword; 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
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Asylum on the hill  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8214-2341-X
0-8214-4426-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790108903321
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