History of a Healing Landscape
by
Katherine Ziff, Joseph Shields, Shawna Bolin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century “gold standard” specifications...