A Refuge of Cure or Care
Author: Ryan, Madeline Kearin
ISBN: 9781793643810
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Publisher,Lexington Books
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 227
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, Ryananalyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity--
