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2ND APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF PE
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The Discovery of the Asylum
This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular ideology in the development of prisons and asylums, Rothman provides a compelling argument that is historically informed and socially instructive. He weaves a comprehensive story that sets forth and portrays a series of interrelated events, influences, and circumstances that are shown to be connected to the development of prisons and asylums. Rothman demonstrates that meaningful historical in...
A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth IT is nearly two years since a meeting of Citizens was held in the city of Philadelphia, to take into consideration the propriety of adopt ing measures to establish, at public expense, an asylum for the Insane Poor of Pennsylvania. At this meeting, it was resolved on motion of Joseph R. Ingersoll, Esq. That it is expedient to make application to the Legislature for the passage of an act to authorize the purchase of extensive grounds and the construction of a State Asylum for the re relief of the Insane Poor of the State of Pennsylvania and farther, that a Committee b...
