The discovery of the asylum

By David J. Rothman

Subjects: Gevangenissen, Health Facilities, Histoire, Asiles, Asylums, Inrichtingen, Prisons, Charities, Établissements publics, Psychiatric Hospitals, Social Conditions, Institutional care, History, Public institutions

Description: Detailed history of U.S. social control of the criminal, poor, and mentally ill from colonial practices centered on human resources to "the age of the asylum," the Jacksonian era.