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Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York
Title:
Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York
Author:
Horn, Stacy, author.
ISBN:
9781616205768
Personal Author:
Horn, Stacy, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina :

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

2018.
Physical Description:
xii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Abstract:
"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
French, William Glenney, 1814-1895.
Subject Term:
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Mental illness -- Treatment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Geographic Term:
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
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