Asylum
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Asylum may refer to:
In medicine:
In politics:
- Political asylum, the refuge which may be granted to people seeking to escape persecution (see refugee)
In history:
- Right of asylum or Sanctuary, a medieval English law that protected felons under the care of the Church
- Destitute Asylum, an institution built in the 1850's in Adelaide, Australia for isolating cases of extreme poverty.[1]
In music:
- Asylum Records
- Asylum (album) (1985) by the band KISS
- Asylum, an album by the Legendary Pink Dots
In fiction:
- Asylum (film) of the Patrick McGrath novel, made in 2005
- Asylum (comic), a comic series
- Asylum (video game), a Commodore 64 game
- A Dungeons and Dragons adventure, Last of the Shackled City Adventure Path, published in Dungeon Magazine