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8 entries match Neurology & Psychiatry [C10 / F04] · Hospitals & Institutions [N02]

1852 CE

#12047

A curious dance round a curious tree.

Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…

2009 CE

#9120

Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.

2016 CE

#10968

Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital.

1996 CE

#13399

Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.

1843 CE

#13612

Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…

1854 CE

#9116

On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2007 CE

#9118

The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States.

1916 CE–1917 CE

#5006

The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.

Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.