Asylum on the Hill : History of a Healing Landscape / Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding.

Asylum on the Hill : History of a Healing Landscape / Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding.

"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 standar...

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Main Author: Ziff, Katherine K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Athens State Hospital > History.
Athens Lunatic Asylum (Athens, Ohio)
State hospitals > Ohio > Athens > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > Ohio > Athens > History.
Psychiatric hospital care > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > History.
Empathy.
Nurturing behavior.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Medical personnel and patient.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Empathy
History, 19th Century
Mental Disorders > therapy
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychiatry > history
empathy.
Ohio
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