The discovery of the asylum

The discovery of the asylum

Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic

by David J. Rothman

376 pages· ISBN 9780202365534
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This text poses the question why Americans, beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, simultaneously and confidently constructed prisons, insane asylums, reformatories and almshouses to confine and treat their deviant and dependent population. In his introduction, Rothman examines the reasons that this question is now one of the core concerns of European and American social history; analyzes the many imaginative answers that have been proposed; and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses.

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