Description
Title: Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America’s Premier Mental Hospital
Author: Alex Beam
ISBN: 9781891620751
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 288
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : This work is a social history of McLean Hospital – temporary home to many of the troubled genuises of our age, and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today. Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution – one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America.
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