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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.
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