Using architecture as medication
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 08:31
in Health & Medicine
"If someone had obtained the same results with a new medicine, it would have been a worldwide sensation," says Stefan Lundin as he explains how the use of forced medication and mechanical restraints decreased in the new building that he helped to design for psychiatry at the Östra Sjukhuset hospital in Gothenburg. He is now trying to understand, at a deeper level, why it worked.