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The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic » (1st Edition)

Authors: David J. Rothman
ISBN-13: 9780202307152, ISBN-10: 0202307158
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aldine
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

	Foreword
	Introduction to the 1990 Edition
1	The Boundaries of Colonial Society	3
2	Charity and Correction in the Eighteenth Century	30
3	The Challenge of Crime	57
4	The Invention of the Penitentiary	79
5	Insanity and the Social Order	109
6	The New World of the Asylum	130
7	The Paradox of Poverty	155
8	The Almshouse Experience	180
9	The Well-Ordered Asylum	206
10	The Legacy of Reform	237
11	The Enduring Institution	265
	Bibliographic Note	299
	Notes	313
	Index	369