Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York

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Label

Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York

Title remainder

poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York

Statement of responsibility

Stacy Horn

Creator

• Horn, Stacy,
• trueHorn, Stacy

Author

• Horn, Stacy,

Subject

• trueHistory writing -- Science, technology, and medicine
• trueHistory writing -- United States
• trueHuman experimentation in medicine
• trueInvestigative journalism
• trueMental illness
• Mental illness -- Treatment -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
• truePeople with mental illnesses
• truePrisoners
• truePsychiatric hospitals
• Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
• truePsychiatry -- History
• Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
• trueRoosevelt Island, New York City -- 19th century -- History
• trueNew York City -- History -- 19th century
• true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
• French, William Glenney, 1814-1895
• trueFrench, William Glenney, 1814-1895

Genre

• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century."--

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueDisturbing

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

CoCr/DLC

Dewey number

362.2/1097471

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC445.N68

LC item number

H67 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult