Vox Humana

Vox Humana

The Story of the State Hospital Pipe Organ

ByJason Carpenter

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They called it “the singing hospital" — where a thousand patients dined beneath gilded organ pipes, and a murderer known as the Mad Houdini plotted his revenge. In 1926, at Rhode Island's Asylum for the Insane, Dr. Arthur Harrington defied psychiatric orthodoxy by installing a majestic pipe organ where others used restraints. In the end, his grand instrument would stand as both salvation and requiem. Drawing on lost archives, Vox Humana excavates this shadow history of early psychiatry, including Harrington's final work "Everlasting Life" — completed the night he died at his piano, his radical experiment in musical therapy still unproven.

Details

Publication Date
Feb 4, 2025
Language
English
ISBN
9780982504956
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Jason Carpenter

Specifications

Pages
84
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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