Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Oliver Sacks, Christopher J. Payne

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

Oliver Sacks, Christopher J. Payne

209 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology informative slow-paced
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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...

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