ASYLUM ON THE HILL : History of a Healing Landscape by Ziff, Katherine - 2012

Ohio Univ Press, 2012. 220pp. Black cloth hardback with DJ, VG, index, bibliography, chapter notes, b&w photos, "Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century “gold standard” specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River valley responded to a national movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician", . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.