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Nellie Bly was quite a woman. I can't imagine going undercover as a patient in what used to be referred to as an insane asylum, especially when you consider the treatment of the patients. The nurses there were sadistic -- I cannot imagine treating my worst enemy like they treated those women. Some of them were sent there just because they were from a different country and spoke a different language and had no advocate. Many of them did finally lose their mental faculties, as the way they were tr
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Really interesting - a woman's 1887 account of how she feigned madness in order to be committed to an asylum, so she could do an investigative report on the conditions she found. While it's a little overblown in parts to the point where I was sure she was exaggerating (true to the style of journalism of the time), that doesn't stop it from being fascinating and shocking at times.
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