Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815

by Christine Stevenson

Book Overview

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries represent a golden age in the design and construction of hospitals and asylums for the insane. In Britain the great veterans' hospitals at Chelsea and Greenwich were erected, the ancient London hospitals completely reconstructed, and more than fifty other hospitals and asylums purpose-built by British charities or by the Navy. This book is the first devoted entirely to these fascinating buildings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300085362
• ISBN13: 9780300085365
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.4"