The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman

The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic

David J. Rothman

428 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology informative medium-paced
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This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged i...

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