books.google.com - This is a masterful effort to recognie and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_discovery_of_the_asylum.html?id=7NT-YkPryVQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe discovery of the asylum
