Ten days in a mad-house
About this book
In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuses there.
Subjects
- asylum
- biography & autobiography
- blackwell's island
- bly, nellie, 1867-1922
- civil rights - general
- commitment and detention
- court
- editors, journalists, publishers
- expose
- hospital
- hospitals
- internal medicine
- judge
- medical ethics
- mental health
- mental health institution
- mental health services & personnel
- mentally ill
- new york (n.y.).
- new york (n.y.), hospitals
- new york (n.y.). lunatic asylum, blackwell's island
- new york. penitentiary, blackwell's island
- new york state
- political science
- prison
- psychiatric hospitals
- psychiatry - general & miscellaneous
- psychology - history
- psychopathology - general & miscellaneous
- public policy
- sanitarium
- social security
- social services & welfare