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

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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"

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Architecture

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