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Controlling space, transforming visibility
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sammet, Kai |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Geographies and spaces—including institutional distances, interfaces and border lines, the movements of staff and patients—played a central role in the development of German psychiatry in the early nineteenth century. Many psychiatrists agreed that 'in a great asylum the particular rooms are furnished and distributed according to the different needs'. Controlling the nursing staff, quantitatively the main group in close twenty-four hour a day contact with lunatics, was nothing but an illusion. The discourse on violence played a major role in a conflict which was never to be solved in nineteenth-century asylums. This chapter argues that the debate among German psychiatrists about haematoma auris, a medical disorder that resulted in inflammation of the ear, highlights the practical difficulties for Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller and others in achieving perfect institutional control or Aufsicht as it relates to light and visibility. In Roller's asylum, architecture was an architecture of visual transparency—it should interact with the eye. Book Name: Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2009-0-16277-4&isbn=9780203715376&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 304 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 287 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203715376-14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-19 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment History Architecture Staff Visibility Psychiatrists Roller Spaces Asylum Century Nineteenth |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
