Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Macchiavelli And these ideas are by

And these ideas are by no means metaphysical abstractions: they can be directly perceived by any of us through meditation

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Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Macchiavelli And these ideas are byPowerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals