Ten Days in a Mad House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781619492585)

This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental "disorders".

Author: Nellie Bly
ISBN-10: 161949258X
ISBN-13: 9781619492585
Publisher: Empire Books
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2012
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.25d