{"product_id":"9781480443846","title":"Ten Days in a Mad-House","description":"\u003cb\u003eA courageous female journalist’s classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the \u003ci\u003eNew York World\u003c\/i\u003e and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was able to convince policemen, a judge, and a series of doctors of her madness with a few well-practiced facial expressions of derangement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the institution, Bly discovered the stuff of nightmares. Mentally ill patients were fed rotten, inedible food; violently abused by a brutal, uncaring staff; and misdiagnosed, mistreated, or generally ignored by the doctors and so-called mental health experts entrusted with their care. To her horror, Bly encountered sane patients who had been committed on the barest of pretenses and came to the shocking realization that, while the Blackwell Island asylum was remarkably easy to get into, it was nearly impossible to leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144534212848,"sku":"9781480443846","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480443846_p0.jpg?v=1769894058","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480443846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}