Asylum Ways of Seeing

Asylum Ways of Seeing
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780812253573
ISBN-13 : 0812253574
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Download or read book Asylum Ways of Seeing written by Heather Murray and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asylum Ways of Seeing uncovers a patient culture within twentieth-century American psychiatric hospitals that did not just imbibe ideas from the outside world, but generated ones of their own. In illuminating seemingly resigned patients in these settings, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.


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