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- 138 páginas
- 5 horas de lectura
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The narrative follows investigative journalist Nellie Bly as she feigns insanity to expose the harsh realities of Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum in 1887. Through her harrowing ten-day experience, she uncovers the brutal treatment and neglect faced by patients in a facility overwhelmed by scandal and overcrowding. The book highlights the societal attitudes of the 1880s towards mental illness, portraying individuals not as patients deserving care but as dangerous lunatics requiring confinement and control.
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Ten Days in A Madhouse, Nellie Bly
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2018
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- Título
- Ten Days in A Madhouse
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Nellie Bly
- Editorial
- Piccadilly Books, Ltd.
- Publicado en
- 2018
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 138
- ISBN13
- 9781936709250
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Historias reales, Biografías, Temas psicológicos, Autobiografías y memorias, Salud mental, Biografías de mujeres
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- The narrative follows investigative journalist Nellie Bly as she feigns insanity to expose the harsh realities of Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum in 1887. Through her harrowing ten-day experience, she uncovers the brutal treatment and neglect faced by patients in a facility overwhelmed by scandal and overcrowding. The book highlights the societal attitudes of the 1880s towards mental illness, portraying individuals not as patients deserving care but as dangerous lunatics requiring confinement and control.