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Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Asylums
ISBN : UIUC:30112063839481
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Asylums
ISBN : UIUC:30112039449084
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Asylums
ISBN : OXFORD:N10800173
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Asylums
ISBN : OXFORD:N10800175
Author : Christopher Payne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262013499
Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”
Author : Sir Henry Charles Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Asylums
ISBN : OCLC:1417569970
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Asylums
ISBN : LCCN:nuc87351009
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Asylums
ISBN : NYPL:33433011525676
Author : Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337719538
Author : Graham Mooney,Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042026322
This book is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects attention from medical history's more traditionally studied constituencies, patients and doctors. Covering the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions. However, policies towards visitors have varied from outright exclusion, as in the case of some isolation hospitals in Victorian Britain, to near open access in the first Chinese missionary hospitals. Historical studies of visitors and visiting, as a result, tell us much about the changing relationship between healthcare institutions and the communities they serve. These histories are particularly relevant at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients' representatives in healthcare decision making; to control hospital super-bugs; and to make the hospital environment accessible yet safe and secure. With the re-emergence of restricted visiting, the subject remains one of the most emotive topics in the history of institutional medicine.
Author : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Health facilities
ISBN : OCLC:86061947
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UOM:39015070356871
Author : Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0331434148
Excerpt from Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Vol. 2 of 4: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation; With Plans of the Chief Medical Institutions Accurately Drawn to an Uniform Scale; Asylum Construction, With Plans and Bibliography In the circumstances just mentioned it has been very difficult to decide what plans to give in this work. It seemed a useless task to repeat examples of the four types, because in effect it would only amount to the reproduction of almost identical plans, though each institution would of course bear its proper name. We think it well to state this by way of explanation, as some disappoint ment might otherwise be caused by the fact that the actual plans given in this volume are not more mimerous than they will be found to be. Our answer must be that it was quite unnecessary to publish mere plans as such, and we feel that to follow any other course than the one adopted would not only have been a waste of money and space, but a hindrance rather than a help to the practical alienist and architect. Anyonewho wishes to find out on what plan a particular asylum is constructed, or where a particular plan may be Seen, will be able to ascertain the fact by reference to the index, where are given the names of the institutions, and in each case the page on which the institution is classified under its own proper type. In giving a model plan, our object is to set forth in as intelligible a way as possible the main features of each portion of an asylum constructed upon modern ideas, with a due regard to the limits imposed by economical considerations. We do not claim com pleteness for our plan, but we do feel that it includes all the most important features, and that any institution constructed upon this model would enable the medical superintendent to provide adequately by classification for the needs of the majority, at any rate, of the patients intrusted to his care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry C. Burdett
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1375906038
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Estep
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781632659729
A paramedic and paranormal investigator takes readers on a terrifying tour of haunted hospitals, asylums, and medical facilities across the globe. Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. When we consider what has taken place behind the closed doors of hospitals since the inception of the medical profession, it should come as no surprise to discover that so many of them are haunted. In The World's Most Haunted Hospitals, paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating—and chilling—stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe, including: The apparitions at an old Utah hospital, now a nursing home, whose appearances are said to predict a patient's death. The Italian island referred to by locals as "the gateway to Hell," where the spirits of thousands of plague victims prowl the streets. The terrifying phenomena that keep visitors away from an abandoned airbase hospital in the Philippines. The ghostly nurse who has haunted the corridors of a London hospital for generations.
