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Friern Hospital. London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch. McCall, Nina Mental illness Mentally ill women Institutional care Great Britain Psychiatric hospitals England London Quarantine United States 20th century Taylor, Barbara 1950 April 11- Mental health Women Institutional care United States History 20th century Women's rights United States History 20th centuryStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. The Last Asylum is Taylor’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015