'A Tomb for the Living': An Analysis of Late 19th-Century Reporting on the Insane Asylum
This study examines newspaper portrayals of the American insane asylum between 1887 and 1895. The focus is on the way the mental health system was represented to the public in the era of Nellie Bly, the stunt journalist who investigated a Manhattan insane asylum in 1887. The project reveals the ways...
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University of Oregon
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24206 |