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Hardcover Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Book

ISBN: 0262013495

ISBN13: 9780262013499

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

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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...

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