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A Refuge of Cure or Care - The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane (Hardcover)
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A Refuge of Cure or Care - The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane (Hardcover)
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In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement
at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin
Ryan analyzes the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum.
Because the five senses were believed to provide a direct conduit
into a person's mental condition, the curative force of the
Hospital was thought to reside in its command over sensory
experience. Ryan examines how the institution was designed to
target each of the five senses as a mode of therapy, and
conversely, how that well-intentioned design materialized in the
haphazard realm of institutional practice. In doing so, Ryan seeks
to reconcile the disjuncture between the benevolent promise of the
asylum model and its ultimate failure in a way that captures the
complex power dynamics and heterogeneity of actors within the
institution.
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