{"id":12,"date":"2008-01-01T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-05-04T22:32:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T02:32:46","slug":"kirkbrides-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/kirkbrides-book","title":{"rendered":"Kirkbride’s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s long been my goal to transcribe the entire contents of Dr. Kirkbride’s book, On the Contruction, Organization, and General Arrangments of Hospitals for the Insane<\/em>, and make it available online<\/a>. I even tracked down and bought an original copy for a few hundred dollars and spent hours copying chapters into digital form so I could post them here. I got as far as chapter fifty, and then essentially gave up. I always meant to continue, but it’s questionable that I ever would have either. It was just too tedious.<\/p>\n

Just today though I discovered that Google has the entire book published<\/a> in Google Book Search<\/a>. You can even download the entire thing<\/a> in PDF format. I’m both happy and a little sad. I think it’s fantastic that it’s available and that there’s no need for me to endure the tedium of copying, but I also feel disappointed that I was outdone by Google. It’s funny because a recent article about Google<\/a> mentions how they’re viewed as competitors by a wide variety of entities. I never thought I would be one of those entities:)<\/p>\n

So for all of you who keep asking me when more of Kirkbride’s book will be posted: NEVER. Go read it at Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s long been my goal to transcribe the entire contents of Dr. Kirkbride’s book, On the Contruction, Organization, and General Arrangments of Hospitals for the Insane, and make it available online. I even tracked down and bought an original copy for a few hundred dollars and spent hours copying chapters into digital form so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[21,27],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-web-sites","tag-google-book-search","tag-kirkbrides-book"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}