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| Author: Heidi Johnson
Creator: Nancy Tomes
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 794012
Media: Paperback
Edition: Ill
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 212
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0814332129
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780814332122
ASIN: 0814332129
Publication Date: February 2004
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More please! February 2, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just ate this book up! I didn't want it to end. I want to know more about the thousands of patients and employees that were there...so many fascinating stories about those lives...please do another book Ms. Johnson! I especially love the nurses "Hattie and Eunice" and the list of their work duties in the late 1800's was fascinating...nurses today have it easy by comparison. Great photos! I am going to visit this place as soon as I can
Angles in the Architecture December 8, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
To Heidi....What a beautiful and important history of the
Traverse City State Hospital she has complied...For her work
and due diligence...I offer this poem of gratitude. "Angels
in the Architecture"
Captures by lens and aperture
Poignancies of patients plights,
The ennui of endless days, nights,
The efforts made to alleviate
Unhappiness and to pacificate.
The book presnts a cameo
Of how it was so long ago,
The sunlit wards, the kind nurses,
A sick person's plaintive verses.
The volume is a worthy tribute
To angles aiding the destiture.
Fascinating, Insightful November 29, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Historically accurate, beautifuly presented, enlightening, compassionate... Wonderful.
a touching and true history... November 24, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a former employee of this hospital, I give this book my stamp of approval. It is a great history because it is told through the voice of people that were there and their stories brought memories flooding back to me. I laughed and I cried. The photographs reminded me of everything that happened at this place...good and bad. It is masterfully crafted book...the photographs are amazing...the stories are riveting and more importantly, true. I have read everything printed on the history of the former Traverse City State Hosptial and this is far and away the most informative...I thought I knew all the history but Miss Johnson revealed facts and details I never knew...the research is terrific.
I am so happy a book like this was finally published and I am honored to have it in my collection.
Photographs Speak Volumes November 16, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful book. Ms. Johson's photographs and interviews put in perspective the story of early American psychiatric care, warts and all. It's as much a book about institutional architecture as it is the story of institutional psychiatric care. It not only tells the story of the institution, but it's impact on the people of northern Michigan. The interviews alone are worth the price. The photographs are stunning. Thank you Wayne State Press for giving this talented artist the opportunity to tell an often unspoken (and misunderstood) story of American history.
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