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| 8:40:11 PM - Fri, Mar 11th 2011 |
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I thought there was a thread on here about asylum related books but I can't find it so I'm starting this.
What I'm doing is posting by list of books that I own. The one's with a "*" indicate ones that I have read. I can give a review if asked or answer any questions anyone else has about any of the books.
Here are the books in my personal collection:
-Madness A Brief History, Roy Porter
- * The Attendant's Guide, Edith Stern 1945
-A Man Against Insanity, Paul De Kruf 1957
-The Discovery of the Asylum, David J. Rothman
- * A Short History of Weston Hospital, Joy Stalnaker
-The Art of Asylum-Keeping, Nancy Tomes
- * The Farm Colonies, Leo Polaski
- * Danvers State Memoirs of Nurse in the Asylum, Angelina Szot
- * Traverse City State Hospital, Chris Miller
-Pennsylvania Hospital, Annual Report 1906
-State Mental Hospitals: What Happens When they Close, Paul Ahmed 1976
-The Lobotomist, Jack El-Hai
- * Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today, Enoch Callaway, MD
-Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, VA 1773-1885, Shomer Zwelling
- * The Asylum: Photographic Essay, Shaun O'Boyle
- * Abandoned Asylums of New England, John Gray and Mark Gerrity
-America's Care of teh Mentally Ill: A Photographic History, William Baxter
- * Angels in the Architecture, Heidi Johnson
- * Haunted Palace: Danvers Asylum as Art and History, Michael Ramseur
-Madness in America, Lynn Gamwell
- * Worcester Annual Report, 1885
- * Worcester Annual Report, 1886
- * Worcester Annual Report, 1887
- * Metropolitian State Hospital Annual Report, 1934
-The Arcitecture of Madness, Carla Yanni
-General Report on all State Institutions in WV, 1909
-General Report on all Staet Institutions in WV, 1912
-The Medical Clinics of North America Vol. 34, 1950 (from the Macdonald Library at Danvers. Binded by Northampton State Hospital Industrial Therapy Dept.).
- * The State and the Mentally Ill, A history of Worcester State Hospital, Geral Grob
And my most prized is: Lobotomy: Collective Reprints 1936-1954, Walter Freeman.
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| 5:13:05 AM - Sat, Mar 12th 2011 |
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I think we had a list on the old forum. I don't really read annual reports that closely, most tend to be pretty cut & dry with lots of numbers & statistics to impress politicians. The really old ones sometimes had more interesting narratives though, but they're harder to find.
Some good books you've listed. I'll add some when I get a chance this weekend.
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| 9:03:00 PM - Sat, Mar 12th 2011 |
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Very good list, I'm jealous of your collection.
A few more
-Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, And The Enduring Mistreatment Of The Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
-Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States by James W. Trent Jr.
-The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney
-Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital Alex Beam
-Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Benjamin Reiss
-Beauty is Therapy : Memories of the Traverse City State Hospital by Kristen M. Hains and Earle E. Steele
-Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix by David L. Gollaher
-A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883 by Nancy Tomes
-On the construction, organization, and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane: with some remarks on insanity and its treatment by Thomas Story Kirkbride
-The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada Volumes 1-3 by American Medico-Psychological Association: Committee on a History of the Institutional Care of the Insane
-America's Care of the Mentally Ill: A Photographic History by William E. Baxter
The Images of America books on Dixmont State Hospital and Spring Grove
And of course any old hospital annual report or reports from a state Board of Commissioners of Public Charities
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| 11:39:28 PM - Sat, Mar 12th 2011 |
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Most of what you guys listed I've read or haven't but thanks to you guys I've got to go on a buying spree and stock my liberty with more books. 
I'm not sure either what happened to that post, but here is our book category of every institution entry that's got a book: Category:Asylum Books
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Edited On 11:41:24 PM - Sat, Mar 12th 2011 by M-Explorer
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| 12:42:03 AM - Sun, Mar 13th 2011 |
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| My collection is small compared to those, but it has still managed to exceed the space I have to store it. Time to hit up Ikea for some new book shelves!
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| 2:00:50 PM - Tue, Apr 12th 2011 |
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I just found the book "Phychiatric Architecture" published in 1959 by the APA. Its neat to see the thinking for why buildings of that period were built as they were.
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL216068M/Psychiatric_architecture
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| 2:26:38 PM - Tue, Apr 12th 2011 |
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| Nice find, I'll have to try and track that one down and take a gander.
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