Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

by Oliver Sacks

Book Overview

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: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 12.0" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher