Village and colony asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914 : environmental approaches to the treatment of the insane in Edwardian institutions / Gillian Allmond.

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2021.

1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

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This text analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which environments were seen as therapeutic. An innovative type of asylum layout - the village or colony asylum - is considered in detail. Gillian Allmond offers an original approach to asylum analysis, using field observation, documents and published materials to connect asylum materiality to contemporary discourses of health and poverty.

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December 04, 2023

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