Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York /

Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York /

"On a two-mile stretch of land in New York's East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding ... Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane inca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horn, Stacy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
French, William Glenney, > 1814-1895.
French, William Glenney, > 1814-1895
1800-1899
Psychiatric hospitals > New York (State) > New York > 19th century > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > New York (State) > New York > 19th century > History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Prisons > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
History, 19th Century
Socioeconomic Factors > history
Maladies mentales > Traitement > New York (État) > New York > 19e siècle > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
LAW > Mental Health.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Psychiatric hospitals > New York (N.Y.) > History.
Mental illness > New York (N.Y.) > Treatment.
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) > 19th century > History.
New York City
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Roosevelt Island.
Nonfiction.
History.

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