Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875

ISBN-13: 9781138527980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 491 str.

Robert Golembiewski; Gerald N. Grob

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Robert Golembiewski