In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuses there.
Genres
- Mentally ill
- Commitment and detention
- New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island
- Psychiatric hospitals
- New York (N.Y.).
- Hospitals
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Public Policy
- Social Security
- Social Services & Welfare
- Internal medicine
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Institution
- Blackwell's Island
- New York. Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island
- Prison
- Judge
- Court
- Expose
- Hospital
- New York State
- Asylum
- Sanitarium
- Psychiatry - general & miscellaneous
- Medical ethics
- Civil rights - general
- Psychology - history
- Psychopathology - general & miscellaneous
- Mental health services & personnel
- Bly, nellie, 1867-1922
- New york (n.y.), hospitals
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