Madness, Architecture and Built Environment ― Psychiatric Spaces in Historial Context

Papers in this book were selected from a conference held at Oxford Brookes University in 2002, and focus on space, architecture, psychiatry, and madness. Sectional topics include madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context; case studies in psychiatric space; beyond the institution; race and space in colonial asylums; architects and institutions; and professionals and patients. The majority of places cited are from England and Europe. Although part of a series on the social history of medicine, this title may be of interest to social and architectural historians as well. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Leslie Topp is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London.She is the author of Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and articles on the connections between modern architecture and psychiatry.

James E. Moran is Associate Professor in History at the University of Prince Edward Island.His publications include Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario (2000), and with David Wright, Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (2006).

Jonathan Andrews is a lecturer in the School of Historical Studies and Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University. His publications include (with A. Scull) Undertaker of the Mind and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (University of California Press, 2001, 2003), and (with R. Porter et al.) The History of Bethlem (Routledge, 1997).