Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

by Oliver Sacks

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Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned 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 million patients. The blueprint for these...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262013495

ISBN13:9780262013499

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:209 Pages

Weight:3.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 12.0" x 10.4"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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