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Ten Days in a Mad House

Ten Days in a Mad House

by Nellie Bly
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/01/2012
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This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental "disorders".
ISBN:
9781619492585
9781619492585
Category:
Abnormal psychology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-01-2012
Publisher:
Empire Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
120
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x6mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Nellie Bly

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly (1864–1922) reported on inequalities women faced in the workplace and in the legal system, and she served as a foreign correspondent in Mexico.

Two years after her undercover work at Blackwell's Island Asylum, Bly circled the globe to test the feasibility of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days - and beat the fictional record by eight days. This new edition of her groundbreaking reports from the asylum features 17 period illustrations from the original publication.

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Illness & addiction: social aspects Abnormal psychology Medical sociology
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