Abandoned Insane Asylums
What secrets are buried within the crumbling walls of old asylums for the insane? Readers will get a glimpse of what these nightmare facilities were like before the dawn of the modern era. From the wretched overcrowding of Londons Bethlem Royal Hospital (which inspired the English word bedlam), where citizens could pay a penny for the pleasure of poking lunatics through the hospitals bars with sticks, to Christian Church Hospital in Kansas City where Dr. Robert Patterson beat and chained patients and performed ice-pick lobotomiesthis scary book will rivet young readers while also giving them an understanding of how far mental health care has…
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Weitere Autoren: Taylor, Troy (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-59716-575-4
- EAN: 9781597165754
- Produktnummer: 3278191
- Verlag: Bearport Pub Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 32 S.
- Masse: H26.0 cm x B21.5 cm x D0.8 cm 304 g
- Gewicht: 304
- Sonstiges: Ab 10 - 13 J.
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