Asylum on the Hill - History of a Healing Landscape (Paperback)

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 movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Katherine Ziff's compelling 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. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2012
Authors:	Katherine Ziff
Foreword by:	Samuel T. Gladding
Afterword by:	Joseph Shields • Shawna Bolin
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2341-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-8214-2341-X
Barcode:	9780821423417

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