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• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Shirley Hall Asylum: or, The Memoirs of a Monomaniac (London: W. Freeman, 1863), by William Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rose and the Key (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco (Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896), by Mary Roberts Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Almshouses of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Plan for a Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes (London: R. Francklin, 1758), by John Fielding (multiple formats at Google)

• Life in the Ward (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c1962), by Rose Laub Coser (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Use of the Physical and Social Environment of the General Hospital for Therapeutic Purposes (Newer Dimensions of Patient Care p1; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1961), by Esther Lucile Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ward Management and Teaching (first edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1949), by Jean Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Waste-Basket Surgery (Philadelphia et al.: Judson Press, 1930), by Gordon Stifler Seagrave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Hospital Financing in Seven Countries (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1995), ed. by Miriam M. Wiley, Mary A. Laschober, and Hellen Gelband
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Hospital Financing in Seven Countries (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1995), ed. by Miriam M. Wiley, Mary A. Laschober, and Hellen Gelband
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Modern Hospital (partial serial archives)
• The Hospital and Health Review (full serial archives)
• The Hospital (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.