Ten Days in a Mad House
This is Bly s truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly s controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of...
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This is Bly s truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly s controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental disorders .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781619492585 (161949258X)
ASIN: 161949258X
Publish date: November 17th 2013
Publisher: Empire Books
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
★★★★★ (5 von 5 Sterne)Inhalt:„Die Irrenanstalt auf Blackwell´s Island ist eine menschliche Mausefalle. Es ist leicht hineinzukommen, aber unmöglich herauszukommen.“ Es war das Jahr 1887 als die junge Journalistin Nellie Bly den Auftrag bekam, sich undercover auf Blackwell´s Island einzuschleusen. Ü...
I probably would have liked reading Bly’s landmark investigative journalism more if this edition didn’t include a host of similar articles at the end with titles like “Nellie Bly as a White Slave.” A better description would be “Nellie Bly Doesn’t Realize References and Work Experience is Important,...
Soon to be a major motion picture: A courageous female journalist’s classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century America In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on ...
Hat's off to you, Nellie Bly. My new hero. For the sake of a story, she faked insanity and she got herself admitted into an insane asylum then wrote an exposé on the Blackwell's Island women's asylum in New York. Not knowing how, or if, she or anybody else would be able to get her out. And all th...
Introduction--Ten Days in a Mad-House--Trying to be a Servant--Nellie Bly as a White Slave
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