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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.

Katherine Ziff’s compelling presentation of America’s nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Preface
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Chapter One: The Moral Treatment Experiment
  2. pp. 1-24
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  1. Chapter Two: Patients
  2. pp. 25-62
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  1. Chapter Three: Architecture
  2. pp. 63-104
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  1. Chapter Four: Politics
  2. pp. 105-124
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  1. Chapter Five: Landscape
  2. pp. 125-143
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  1. Chapter Six: Caregivers
  2. pp. 144-164
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  1. Epilogue
  2. pp. 165-192
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 193-208
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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