'Relieving gloomy and objectless lives'. The landscape of Caterham Imbecile Asylum. (17th August 2016)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Relieving gloomy and objectless lives'. The landscape of Caterham Imbecile Asylum. (17th August 2016)
- Main Title:
- 'Relieving gloomy and objectless lives'. The landscape of Caterham Imbecile Asylum
- Authors:
- Eastoe, Stef
- Abstract:
- Abstract: From the mid-eighteenth century the lunatic asylum landscape has been recognised as playing a key role in the health of patients. This article explores the landscape of a different type of nineteenth-century institution, Caterham Imbecile Asylum, one of the first state imbecile asylums. Built following the public health reforms of the 1860s, Caterham was a long-stay institution, and thus developed a particular institutional geography, due to the nature of its patients and its remit. This article will examine how the landscape of Caterham, its location, its grounds and its wider environment, were used as part of the asylum regime to provide a therapeutic landscape, and relieve the formerly gloomy, monotonous and objectless lives of its patients.
- Is Part Of:
- Landscape research. Volume 41:Number 6(2016)
- Journal:
- Landscape research
- Issue:
- Volume 41:Number 6(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 41, Issue 6 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0041-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 652
- Page End:
- 663
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08-17
- Subjects:
- Nineteenth century asylum -- therapeutic landscape -- institutional landscape -- asylum design -- environment
Landscape -- Periodicals
Land use -- Planning -- Periodicals
719.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/clar20#.VrmunFLcuic ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/01426397.2016.1199794 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0142-6397
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