Village and Colony Asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914: Environmental approaches to patient treatment in Edwardian institutions for the

by Gillian Allmond

This book analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which environments were seen as therapeutic. An innovative type of asylum layout - the village or colony asylum - is considered in detail. Gillian Allmond offers an original approach to asylum analysis, using field observation, documents and published materials to connect asylum materiality to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407357581
• ISBN13: 9781407357584
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 11.7"