Stories
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Suggestions and instructions in reference to (1) - sites, (2) - construction and arrangement of buildings, (3) - plans of lunatic asylums / issued by the commissioners in lunacy.
Great Britain. Lunacy Commission.Date: 1870- Books
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On the construction, organization, and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane / by Thomas S. Kirkbride.
Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883.Date: 1854- Books
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Suggestions and instructions in reference to (1) sites (2) construction and arrangement of buildings (3) plans of lunatic asylums / issued by the Commissioners in Lunacy.
Great Britain. Commissioners in Lunacy.Date: 1870- Books
On the construction, organization, and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane / by Thomas S. Kirkbride.
Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883.Date: 1973, [©1880]- Books
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An asylum, or hospital-home, for two hundred patients : constructed on the principle of adaptation of various parts of the house to varied needs and mental states of inhabitants : with plans, etc. / by T.S. Clouston.
Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.Date: 1879