Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.

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"Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 10.
Main Author: Topp, Leslie, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Series:Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 10.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospitals > Europe, Central > Design and construction > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Europe, Central > Design and construction > History > 20th century.
Hospital architecture > Europe, Central > History > 19th century.
Hospital architecture > Europe, Central > History > 20th century.
Hospital architecture.
Psychiatric hospitals > Design and construction.
Central Europe.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history.
Hospital Design and Construction > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Austria-Hungary.
Psychiatrische Klinik.
Krankenhausbau.
Österreich-Ungarn.
1800-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxii, 232 pages ; 26 cm x 24 cm.
Format: Book

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