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Insane Asylums Weren't So Bad: Oliver Sacks

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 13, 2009 5:35 PM CDT

(Newser) – Mental health experts have lost touch with the benefits of old-fashioned insane asylums, where patients once enjoyed a sense of community and jobs like cleaning and farming, Oliver Sacks writes in the New York Review of Books. Touching on a new book of Christopher Payne... Read full story »

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