A Refuge of Cure or Care

In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Kearin Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.