02638cam a2200373 4500 581702542 TxAuBib 20220716120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781480443846 1480443840 B0167TSYWI Amazon cf858bc7-eb47-4fe4-b076-5ab1ddabfa3c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2419469 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in a Mad-House [Libby]. Open Road Media, 2015. mental health. Human Services. social science. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 743kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 333kB. Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A courageous female journalist's classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century America</b><br /> In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the <i>New York World</i> and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America's first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself "Nellie Brown," she was able to convince policemen, a judge, and a series of doctors of her madness with a few well-practiced facial expressions of derangement.<br /> At the institution, Bly discovered the stuff of nightmares. Mentally ill patients were fed rotten, inedible food; violently abused by a brutal, uncaring staff; and misdiagnosed, mistreated, or generally ignored by the doctors and so-called mental health experts entrusted with their care. To her horror, Bly encountered sane patients who had been committed on the barest of pretenses and came to the shocking realization that, while the Blackwell Island asylum was remarkably easy to get into, it was nearly impossible to leave.<br /> This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cf858bc7-eb47-4fe4-b076-5ab1ddabfa3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cf858bc7-eb47-4fe4-b076-5ab1ddabfa3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cf858bc7-eb47-4fe4-b076-5ab1ddabfa3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)