Ten days in a mad house

Description:

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.

subjects: 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

People: Nellie Bly,  Nellie Bly (1864-1922)

Places: New York (State),  New York (N.Y.),  New York,  Blackwell's Island,  New York City (New York),  Roosevelt Island (New York)

Times: mid-1800s,  1887