-
horror series Asylums (book), a 1961
nonfiction book by
Erving Goffman Asylum (1972
horror film), a
horror film
starring Peter Cushing Asylum (1972 do****entary...
- from and
eventually replaced the
older lunatic asylum. The
treatment of
inmates in
early lunatic asylums was
sometimes brutal and
focused on containment...
- The
Asylum is an
American independent film
production and
distribution company based in Burbank, California,
known for
producing low-budget, direct-to-video...
-
early 20th centuries,
Magdalene asylums were
common in
several countries. By 1900,
there were more than 300
asylums in
England and more than 20 in Scotland...
-
mental asylums were
established in Britain; the p****ing of the
County Asylums Act 1808
empowered magistrates to
build rate-supported
asylums in every...
-
Benevolent asylums, also
known as
destitute asylums or
infirmaries for the destitute, were
institutions established throughout the
colonies of Australia...
-
Asylums:
Essays on the
Condition of the
Social Situation of
Mental Patients and
Other Inmates is a 1961
collection of four
essays by the
sociologist Erving...
-
Inebriate Asylum.
Paupers were
placed in
lunatic asylums.
After the 1888 Zox
Commission into
Asylums, all private/semi-private
inebriate asylums were abolished...
-
developmental disabilities.
Previously they had been
housed either in
asylums for the
mentally ill or in workhouses. In 1847, Ann
Serena Plumbe took...
- treatment. The
first asylum owing to the
County Asylums Act
opened at
Northampton in 1811. By 1827
however only nine
county asylums had
opened and many...
