492 Pages
by
Routledge
492 Pages
by
Routledge
491 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, Abbreviations, I The Mentally Ill in Colonial America, II. Philanthropy and Hospitals, III. The Growth of Public Mental Hospitals, IV. American Psychiatry: Origins of a Profession, V. The Mental Hospital, 1830-1875: Dilemmas of Growth, VI. Class, Ethnicity, and Race in Mental Hospitals, VII. Centralization and Rationalization: The Evolution of Public Policy, 1850-1875, VIII. The Search for Alternatives, Appendix I. The Founding of State Mental Hospitals to 1860, Appendix II. Average Annual Admissions to the American Mental Hospital, 1820-1870, Appendix III. Average Total Number of Patients Treated in the American Mental Hospital, 1820-1870, Appendix IV. Selected Statistics for American Mental Hospitals, 1820-1875, at Five Year Intervals, (Admissions, Total Number of Patients, Average Patient Population, Recoveries, Deaths), Bibliography, Index
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Robert Golembiewski
