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• Intorno all'Ospizio Provinciale Degli Esposti e Delle Partorienti in Milano, by Ospizio provinciale degli esposti e delle partorienti (Milan, Italy), contrib. by Romolo Griffini (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mental Ward: A Personnel Guidebook (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1962), by Morgan Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Persecution (2 volumes with different subtitles and publishers; 1873), by E. P. W. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane; With Some Remarks on Insanity and its Treatment (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1880), by Thomas Story Kirkbride (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reasons for the Establishing, and Further Encouragement of St. Luke's Hospital, for Lunaticks, Together with the Rules and Orders for the Government Thereof (London: J. March and Son, 1797), by St. Luke's Hospital (London, England) (page images at NIH)

• Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York, for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends: Containing an Account of its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases (Philadelphia: I. Peirce, 1813), by Samuel Tuke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia, by Georgia Lunatic Asylum (partial serial archives)

• The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, by Ebenezer Haskell (page images at MOA)

• The Story of a Mental Hospital: Fulbourn, 1858-1983, by David H. Clark (HTML with commentary at psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, 1847-1862 (Chicago: F. Fulton and Co., 1863), by Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.), contrib. by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at Google)

• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)

• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)

• Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)

• Annual Report, by Longview Asylum and Longview Hospital (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report, by Ohio Board of Administration (full serial archives)

• Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane: Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1845 (Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, printer, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, by Ebenezer Haskell (page images at MOA)

• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States (Hoosick Falls, NY: Printed for the author, 1874), by Moses Swan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sane or Insane? or, How I Regained Liberty (c1904), by Margaret Starr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "They Call Them Camisoles" (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, c1940), by Wilma Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Astounding Disclosures! Three Years in a Mad House, by a Victim (Skowhegan, ME: Printed for the author, 1851), by Isaac H. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women (1997), by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, and Katharine Shapiro, ed. by Sandy Niemann (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• Recommendations for Research on the Health of Military Women: Bibliographies (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues (1997), by Beryl Lieff Benderly (page images with commentary at NAP)

• When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Leslie J. Reagan (HTML at UC Press)

• Preventing Low Birthweight: Summary (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider (1995), ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (PDF at IDRC)

• Intorno all'Ospizio Provinciale Degli Esposti e Delle Partorienti in Milano, by Ospizio provinciale degli esposti e delle partorienti (Milan, Italy), contrib. by Romolo Griffini (partial serial archives)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: The NICE Guideline on Clinical Management and Service Guidance (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2007), by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)

• Antenatal Care: Routine Care for the Healthy Pregnant Woman (London: RCOG Press, 2008), by National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)
• A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (third edition; c2000), by Murray Enkin, Marc J. N. C. Keirse, James Neilson, Caroline Crowther, Lelia Duley, Ellen Hodnett, and Justus Hofmeyr (PDF files with commentary at childbirthconnection.org)
• Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: The NICE Guideline on Clinical Management and Service Guidance (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2007), by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)

• Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women (Oxford, OH: Anchor Press, 1940), by Thomas Elyot, ed. by Edwin J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divinity of Woman: Her Superiority Over Man (third edition revised; Los Angeles: Filipino Federation of America, 1927), by Hilario Camino Moncado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Woman Regenerate Society? (London: John W. Parker, 1844), by Anne Richelieu Lamb Dryden (page images at Google)
• Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912), by Margaret Collier Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epistles on Women, by Lucy Aikin (HTML at Michigan)
• An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex: In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c., In a Letter to a Lady (attributed variously to Astell or Drake; London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696), contrib. by Mary Astell and Judith Drake
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (in Latin and English, based on editions of 1529 and 1670), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by Henry Care (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers, by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (HTML at Virginia)
• The Nature of Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by J. Lionel Tayler, contrib. by William Caldwell Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Powder-Puff: A Ladies' Breviary (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Franz Blei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World; To Which Are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguise of Dress (Boston: T. Abbot, 1841) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Sum of Feminine Achievement: A Critical and Analytical Study of Woman's Contribution to the Intellectual Progress of the World (Boston: The Stratford Company, 1917), by W. A. Newman Dorland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in All Ages and in All Countries (10 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907-1908), contrib. by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward B. Pollard, Pierce Butler, John R. Effinger, Hugo P. Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, and John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg texts and illustrated HTML)
• Women and Other Women: Essays in Wisdom (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.