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

Informationen zum Autor Madeline Kearin Ryan is project development librarian at the Worcester Historical Museum. Klappentext 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, Kearin Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Madeline Kearin Ryan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781793643834
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-383-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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