Madness, architecture, and the built environment : psychiatric spaces in historical context / edited by Leslie Topp, James E. Moran, and Jonathan Andrews.

New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.

346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Interpreting psychiatric spaces: madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context / James Moran and Leslie Topp -- Site and vantage: sculptural decoration and spatial experience in early modern Dutch asylums / Jane Kromm -- The architecture of confinement: urban public asylums in England, 1750-1820 / Leonard D. Smith -- Placing psychiatric practices: on the spatial configurations and contests of professional labour in late-nineteenth century Germany / Eric J. Engstrom -- A space for moral management: the York Retreat's influence on asylum design / Barry Edginton -- Scaling the asylum: three geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum (Craig Dunain) / Chris Philo -- "This coy and secluded dwelling": Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane / Deborah E.B. Weiner -- The architecture of madness: informal and formal spaces of treatment and care in nineteenth-century New Jersey / James Moran --

Community spaces and psychiatric family care in Belgium, France, and Germany: a comparative study / Thomas Mueller -- The Great Asylum laundry: space, classification, and imperialism in Cape Town / Sally Swartz -- Madness and colonial spaces: British India, c. 1800-1947 / Waltraud Ernst -- The modern mental hospital in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria: psychiatric space and images of freedom and control / Leslie Topp -- The architect and the Pauper Asylum in late nineteenth-century England: G.T. Hine's 1901 review of asylum space and planning / Jeremy Taylor -- Controlling space, transforming visibility: psychiatrists, nursing staff, violence, and the case of haematoma auris in German psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870 / Kai Sammet -- "A small corner that's for myself": space, place and patients' experiences of mental health care, 1948-1998 / Kerry Davies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.