Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals

"For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half mi...

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Main Author: Payne, Christopher, 1968-
Contributors: Sacks, Oliver W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.
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Call Number: RC 439 .P39 2009 FOLIO
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