Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment
Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context
Edited by James Moran, Leslie Topp, Jonathan Andrews
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
List Price: $140.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-37529-0
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 05/17/2007
- Pages: 358
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About the Book
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.