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Book Reviews of Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital

Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
Gracefully Insane Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
Author: Alex Beam
ISBN-13: 9781586481612
ISBN-10: 1586481614
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 23 ratings
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
A wordy but interesting history of the mental ward of McLean Hospital from it's beginning to present. With historic photographs and histories of particular patients and their treatments. The narrative is slow and long winded.