A Refuge Of Cure Or Care: The Sensory Dimensions Of Confinement At The Worcester State Hospital For The Insane - 9781793643834

In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Kearin Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.

• | Author: Madeline Kearin Ryan
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1793643830
• | ISBN-13: 9781793643834