Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape Contributor(s): Ziff, Katherine (Author), Gladding, Samuel T. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0821419730 ISBN-13: 9780821419731 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - Psychology | History |
Dewey: 362.210 |
LCCN: 2011041136 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.8" W x 10.2" (1.60 lbs) 204 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Cultural Region - Midwest |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |