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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital Paperback - 2003
by Alex Beam
An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--a temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--this book explores the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today. of photos.
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Everyone makes the same comment: It doesn't look like a mental hospital.
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- Title Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
- Author Alex Beam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher PublicAffairs, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-01-07
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781586481612 / 1586481614
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.56 x 0.76 in (21.03 x 14.12 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1180
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects Hospitals, Psychiatric - history -, McLean Hospital
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001048339
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.2
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- New York Times, 01/12/2003, Page 20
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