Institutions of confinement
Subtitle: hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950
By: edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.
Contributors: Finzsch, Norbert.; Jütte, Robert.
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Prisons -- Europe, Western -- History.; Hospitals -- Europe, Western -- History.; Prisons -- United States -- History.; Hospitals -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on revised versions of papers delivered at a conference held at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., from June 6-9, 1992.