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"[This book] is a visual history of the stereotypes that have shaped the perception of the mentally ill from medieval to modern times. The result is nearly as heart-breaking as a visual history of the Holocaust. In picture after picture, the book portrays centuries of intolerance for deviance, mindless cruelty, unthinking prejudice, and self-righteous abuse of the weak and ill."Gilman, Sander L. is the author of 'Seeing the Insane' with ISBN 9780803270640 and ISBN 080327064X.
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