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Mental Institutions in America
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 providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imp...
Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association ... Annual Meeting
List of members in each volume except v. 27.
Census Reports. Report on the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes of the Population of the United States. Tenth Census, June 1, 1880
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
