Title: The discovery of the asylum
Description: Detailed history of U.S. social control of the criminal, poor, and mentally ill from colonial practices centered on human resources to "the age of the asylum," the Jacksonian era.
Subjects: Public institutions, History, Asylums, Prisons, Charities, Social Conditions, Établissements publics, Histoire, Asiles, Inrichtingen, Gevangenissen, Institutional care, Health Facilities, Psychiatric Hospitals