Why Could you be Sent to an ‘Insane Asylum’ in 19th Century …
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WEBAug 10, 2021 · ‘Insane asylums’ were the 19th century forerunners of today’s psychiatric hospitals, but people were sent to them for sometimes quite different reasons to today. Here, Casey Hakenson looks at some disturbing cases of why and how people, including women, African Americans, and Native Americans, were
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