Ernest Morrison

This history of a large Pennsylvania institution is comprehensive, detailed, and as much a history of Pennsylvania as it is a history of the Harrisburg State Hospital. Like many of these histories, it focuses on the "public face" aspects - the farm life, the construction of the buildings, the architects, the administrators, and its founding as a moral treatment asylum rather than the "other" side of the institutional coin - overcrowding, abuse, exploitation, and the conditions on the back wards.