# Asylum

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- Book: [Asylum](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-payne/asylum) ([Asylum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-payne/asylum.md))
- Authors: [Christopher Payne](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-payne), [Oliver Sacks](https://www.bookquiver.com/oliver-sacks)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6201-349-9
- Pages: 209
- Published: 2009-09-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature...