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An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

A man with AIDS with his head in his hands; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A man with AIDS with his head in his hands representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.

Remarks on the use and abuse of seclusion / by J.A. Campbell.

Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.

Total isolation.

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Solitary confinement

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Remarks on the use and abuse of seclusion / by J.A. Campbell.

Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.

An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

A man with AIDS with his head in his hands; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Total isolation.