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Awards:
Nominated for a national Emmy Award
CINE Golden Eagle Award
Best Social Sciences Documentary, Birmingham International Educational Film Festival
Asylum: A History of the Mental Institution in America
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Format: DVD » Add to Cart » Request Preview Access Catalogue Number: 393613DV ISBN number: 978-0-7365-8266-7 Producer: Films Media Group Subject: Social Sciences Language: ENGLISH Grade Level: 9 - Post Secondary Country of Origin: U.S. Copyright Year: 1989 Running Time: 60 Rights: PPR This award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place of therapy and benign confinement. Rare archival footage, interviews with former patients, and insights from mental health historians David Rothman, of Columbia University, and Gerald Grob, of Rutgers University, make this a documentary not to be missed. |
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Awards:
Nominated for a national Emmy Award
CINE Golden Eagle Award
Best Social Sciences Documentary, Birmingham International Educational Film Festival
