Danvers State: Memoirs of a Nurse in the Asylum gives an insider's view of what really went on at the state run insane asylum. The book provides details about the facility's dark past and the melancholy lives of her inhabitants. It brings to light the harsh treatment of mental illness in decades past.
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Book
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Other Documents
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Documentary Objects
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Mental health, Psychiatry, Nursing
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Danvers State Hospital, Insane Asylum, Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Hospitals
