Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals / photographs by Christopher Payne ; with an essay by Oliver Sacks.

  • Payne, Christopher, 1968-
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[2009], ©2009
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Description

Documents the decay of neglected and abandoned state mental hospitals. Architect and photographer Payne spent six years on the project.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

209 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 31 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP.RX.6
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780262013499
  • 0262013495