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9780271077109 Academic Inspection Copy

Freedom and the Cage

Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914
  • ISBN-13: 9780271077109
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Leslie Topp
  • Price: AUD $217.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2017
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Free Institution

2 Regions, Nationalism, and the Asylum as a Political Project

3 “A White City Shimmering”: The Rhetorical Heightening of Control

4 Utopia in Process in Vienna’s Hinterland

5 Spaces

6 Boundaries

Conclusions and Proposals

Appendix: New Psychiatric Hospitals Built in the Habsburg Empire After 1898

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“The histories presented in Freedom and the Cage . . . are all the more timely as Central European societies consider the reform of mental health care and the role that institutional hospitals may continue to have into the 21st century.”

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