A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane

A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane

Madeline Kearin Ryan
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Publication Date: May 18th, 2021
Publisher:
Lexington Books
ISBN:
9781793643810
Pages:
234
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Description

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, Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.

About the Author

Madeline Kearin Ryan is project development librarian at the Worcester Historical Museum.