Refuge of Cure Or Care - The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement At the Worcester State

In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "A State of Conscious and Permanent Visibility": Sight as an Instrument of Cure and Control
Chapter 2: "As Syllable from Sound": The Sonic Dimensions of Confinement
Chapter 3: The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain
Chapter 4: Dirty Bread, Forced Feeding, and Tea Parties: The Uses and Abuses of Food
Chapter 5: "Curious Relics" and "Drafty Corridors": The Material World of the Asylum

About the author

Madeline Kearin Ryan is archivist at the Worcester Historical Museum.

Product details

• Authors: Madeline Kearin Ryan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793643810
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-381-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social & cultural anthropology, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas