TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horn,Stacy
TI  - Damnation Island: poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York 
SN  - 9781616205768 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - RC445.N68 H67 2018
U1  - 362.2/1/097471 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - French, William Glenney,
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"--
ER  -