Asylum Ways of Seeing
| Author | : Heather Murray |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2022-01-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780812253573 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0812253574 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Asylum Ways of Seeing by : Heather Murray
Download or read book Asylum Ways of Seeing written by Heather Murray and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asylum Ways of Seeing uncovers a patient culture within twentieth-century American psychiatric hospitals that did not just imbibe ideas from the outside world, but generated ones of their own. In illuminating seemingly resigned patients in these settings, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.
