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This book is the most extensive and comprehensive history of mental health care and treatment in the 19th and 20th century dealing with the institution of aslym yet available. Included is a carefully constructed theoretical framework, methodology, and data source assessment, a consideration of the founding of county asylums and the removal of the insane from poorhouses, definitions and treatment of insanity in the late 19th and early 20th century, an investigation into the history of a case study in one mid-west county, and a constructive look at the creative development of Milwaukee's "best system" plan to treat the insane.
The 10th report, 1880, includes proceedings of the 7th annual session of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, Cleveland, 1880.
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