Asylum: A Mid-century Madhouse and Its Lessons About Our Mentally Ill Today

by EnochCallaway (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $71.48

  Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts was the first state insane asylum established in the United States. This work is the history of the facility founded in 1833. It reflects not just on the events in this fortress-like place, but also how those events parallel advances and failures in the field of psychiatry itself.