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Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health

A traveling exhibition from the National Library of Medicine, hosted at the Warren Alpert Medical School, May 8 - June 17 2023

Relevant Titles at Brown: (physical & eBooks)

Cover to book, From Asylum to Prison

From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945

cover of book, Cure, comfort, and safe custody: public lunatic asylums in early Nineteenth-Century England

Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England

cover of book, Waiting for an echo: the madness of American incarcerations

Waiting for an echo : the madness of American incarcerations

cover of book, Madhouse: psychiatry and politics in Cuban history

Madhouse : psychiatry
and politics in Cuban history

Connections to Hay Holdings

Voices of Mass Incarceration in the United States

The John Hay Library’s strategic collecting direction Voices of Mass Incarceration in the United States gathers and provides access to original material in all formats that document the lived experiences of incarcerated individuals in the United States as well as those affected by the American prison system.

Connections to Graphic Medicine Collections & RISD Zine Collections on mental health