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Millikan, Frank Rives. "Wards of the Nation: The Making of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 1852-1920," George Washington University, October 1989.
This study examines the relationship between hospital design and patient care at an influential mental hospital in Washington, D. C. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital was founded in 1852 to treat both the city’s mentally ill residents and the nation’s soldiers and sailors. This study evaluates architectural and major developments at the hospital in an effort to compare the level of care offered during the Antebellum period, Gilded Age, and Progressive era. Arguing that growth in size did not result in greater repression and regimentation, the study questions prevalent sociological and popular critiques of institutional care.
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