Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. Shigeru Uchida

Shigeru Uchida

Hij gaf niet alleen glans aan het zomertij der Middeleeuwen met zijn baanbrekend werk als filosoof en theoloog

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In de late negentiende eeuw had koningin Victoria meer dan dertig levende kleinkinderen

Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. Shigeru UchidaPowerful 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 hospitals