Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jails
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Dorothea Dix
Author: Thomas J. BrownPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674214880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war.
Conversations on Common Things
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Dorothea Dix
Author: Margaret MuckenhouptPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195129210
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Breaking the Chains
Author: Penny ColmanPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462094236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. Year after year, she traveled thousands of miles by stagecoach, boats, horseback, and railroad to investigate and expose the horrendous conditions. She lobbied legislators, governors, and presidents to provide treatment and facilities for people with mental illness. She took her crusade to Scotland, Italy, and Russia. During the Civil War, she served as the Superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army, as such she had more authority and power than any other woman had had in the military prior to and during the Civil War. After the war, she resumed her crusade. When Dorothea Dix died in 1887, people around the world honored her. Proclamations, testimonials, and tributes were spoken and printed from the United States to Japan to England. A prominent American doctor wrote, "Thus had died and been laid to rest the most useful and distinguished woman America has yet produced."
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina, November, 1848 (D
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
ISBN: 9781409988144
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. In 1840-41, she conducted a statewide investigation of how her home state of Massachusetts cared for the insane poor. She later traveled from New Hampshire to Louisiana, documenting the condition of pauper lunatics, publishing memorials to state legislatures, and devoting enormous personal energy to working with committees to draft the enabling legislation and appropriations bills needed to build asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.
Memorial soliciting a State for the Insane, submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Febr. 3, 1845
Author: Dorothea L. DixEssentials of Global Mental Health
Author: Samuel O. OkpakuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022320
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes.
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description