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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Payne, Christopher, 1968-
Other Authors: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Photography.
Psychiatric hospitals > United States > Pictorial works.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Architecture as Topic.
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Photographie.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photography
Psychiatric hospitals
United States
Pictorial Work
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Asylum / Oliver Sacks
  • The state mental hospitals / Christopher Payne
  • The photographs.

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