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Building Sanity: The Rise And Fall Of Architectural Treatment At The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, Kimberly Jean Campbell
Building Sanity: The Rise And Fall Of Architectural Treatment At The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, Kimberly Jean Campbell
Theses and Dissertations
Although many historians have acknowledged the importance of architecture in the treatment of the mentally ill during the nineteenth century, no historian has ever examined the rise and fall of the importance of architecture to the treatment of patients at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum. By the late eighteenth century, physicians and laymen alike accepted the ideology of environmental determinism – that one’s environment exercised a direct influence over his or her behavior. In other words, mental illness was both caused and cured by the environment; thus, architecture played a key role in the treatment of mental illness. The South …
Landmark Report (Vol. 32, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Landmark Report (Vol. 32, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Landmark Report
Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.
Landmark Report (Vol. 32, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Landmark Report (Vol. 32, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Landmark Report
Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.
Downtown Clare Historic District National Register Of Historic Places Nomination, Kenneth Lingaur
Downtown Clare Historic District National Register Of Historic Places Nomination, Kenneth Lingaur
Historic Preservation Final Projects
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