Gerald N. Grob

Mental Institutions in America (eBook, ePUB)

Social Policy to 1875

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 491
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351505710
• Artikelnr.: 49258719

Autorenporträt

Robert Golembiewski

Inhaltsangabe

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