Author: William Gunn Malin
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: William Gunn Malin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Its Origin, Objects and Present State (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Gunn Malin
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428513252
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Excerpt from Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Its Origin, Objects and Present State The charter of this institution provides, that no part of its income shall be appropriated to any other purpose, than to the support of the sick and diseased poor, and providing the necessary buildings for their accommodation; and that those whose diseases render them proper objects of the cha rity, shall be received from any part of Pennsylvania, with out partiality or preference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428513252
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Excerpt from Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Its Origin, Objects and Present State The charter of this institution provides, that no part of its income shall be appropriated to any other purpose, than to the support of the sick and diseased poor, and providing the necessary buildings for their accommodation; and that those whose diseases render them proper objects of the cha rity, shall be received from any part of Pennsylvania, with out partiality or preference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Its Origin, Objects, and Present State
Author: William Gunn Malin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Subject Collections
Author: Lee Ash
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Asylum
Author: Christopher Payne
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0262013495
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0262013495
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”
Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Norton's Literary Advertiser
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Trübner's American and Oriental literary record
Author: Trübner and Co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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