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The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940 book cover

1st Edition

The Architecture and Landscape of Health A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940

By Julie Collins Copyright 2020
218 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late... Read more

List of figures

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Place as Prescription: Health and the designed environment

3 Fresh air, reform and exercise: Early public parks and the health of the people

4 Cures, cleanliness and recreation: Public baths and wash-houses

5 Mirroring the spread of epidemics: Quarantine stations and lazarettos

6 Moral treatment and non-restraint: Asylums for the mentally ill

7 Isolating the individual: Leprosaria and Hansen’s disease

8 The open-air treatment: Tuberculosis sanatoria

9 Sunlight, space and surfaces: Healthy homes

10 Ideas from the past

Index

Biography

Julie Collins is Research Associate and Curator at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia. She has published on architectural, cultural and social history including on the influence of climate on Australian colonial architecture, women in the architectural profession, the cultural significance of architectural records as well as architectural histories of asylums and sanatoria.

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