The Afterlives Of The Psychiatric Asylum: Recycling Concepts, Sites And Memories (Geographies Of Health Series)

Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes, this book makes theoretical connections to current trends in mental health care and to ideas in cultural/urban geography. The process of closing asylums and how asylums have survived in specific contexts and markets is assessed and consideration given to the enduring attraction of asylum and its repackaging as well as to retained mental health uses on former asylum sites, new uses on former sites, and interpretations of the derelict psychiatric asylum.

• • Author: Professor Robin Kearns, Professor Alun Joseph, Professor Graham Moon
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 26, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 206 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409442527
• • ISBN-13: 9781409442523