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Ten Days in A Mad-House Illustrated and Annotated: A First-Hand Account of Life At Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1887

Nellie Bly

Ten Days in A Mad-House, Was Written By Nellie Bly in 1887, after she lived, undercover, at a women's insane asylum at Blackwell's Island in 1887 for ten days. This was an assignment given to her by Joseph Pulitzer. The living conditions and treatment of the Patients were Horrible. Bly Wrote:

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The podcasters mentioned the book as an example of earlier journalism that exposed the conditions in insane asylums. It was compared to Rosenhan's study and other works exposing similar problems.

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And then, of course, Ken Kesey. Yeah, there's Ken Kesey too. There was a Life magazine spread from 1946 called, I think, Bedlam 46. And all of these things like really shocked the conscience of societ...

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Episode: How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked

The podcasters mentioned the book as an example of earlier journalism that exposed the conditions in insane asylums. It was compared to Rosenhan's study and other works exposing similar problems.

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And then, of course, Ken Kesey. Yeah, there's Ken Kesey too. There was a Life magazine spread from 1946 called, I think, Bedlam 46. And all of these things like really shocked the conscience of society over and over and over again.

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