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Reviewed on June 1, 2022 | Audio In Depth
Once an armory, the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital became a hospice for poor women in 1656. Over the years, it housed the indigent, the mentally ill, the erotic, the epileptic, and the inconvenient women of Paris. Casey (The Man Who Walked Away) draws from the hospital's history and provides listeners with vignettes of women who were kept there to be studied by th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
