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1. In Nellie Bly's experience at Blackswell Island, she notes multiple times that it was astounding that the doctors were not able to tell the difference between a “sane” and “insane” person. Is this reflective of the medical training at the time? What does that say about whether people (women specifically) getting the care that they actually needed.-Margie Jones
1. Considering the first hand accounts of women in the asylums, what would be some key reasons for all of the corruption within the asylums? What was the motive for keeping women in the asylum so long who were not ill? — Ruth Curran
2. Could well-meaning family and friends who committed their family/friends truly be blind to the abuses happening within the asylum so as to believe that their family was receiving the care as described to them? — Ruth Curran