Asylum

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Asylum may refer to:

In medicine:

• Psychiatric hospital

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

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