The Folklore of Deinstitutionalization: Popular Film and the Death of the Asylum, 1973–1979
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021875819000094
Abstract: The demise of America's state mental hospital system, or “deinstitutionalization,” has received much attention from sociologists and historians of medicine. Less understood is the manner in which the public experienced and came to terms with… read more here.
Keywords: deinstitutionalization popular; folklore deinstitutionalization; death asylum; film death ... See more keywords