[Book Review] Changing faces of madness & homes for the mad

VIUSpace (Vancouver Island University Library) 2026 Open access

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Authors: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
DOI: 10.25316/tpn5-3q19
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Abstract

Book review of "Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane" by Mary Ann Jimenez (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987) and "Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two Nineteenth-Century Asylums" by Ellen Dwyer (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987).

Fields of Study & Subjects

Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices

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VIUSpace (Vancouver Island University Library)
Publication date
16 March 2026
Language
EN