Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950 by

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Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950

384 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction health history medium-paced
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A study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe that grew out of discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent confere...

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