Author: Thomas ScattergoodPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Memoirs of Thomas Scattergood
Author: Thomas ScattergoodMemoirs of Thomas Scattergood
Author: Thomas ScattergoodMemoirs of the life and religious labours of T. Scattergood, etc
Author: Thomas SCATTERGOODThe American in England During the First Half Century of Independence
Author: Robert Ernest SpillerPublisher: Porcupine Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
List of Books Added from January 1st, 1900 to January 1st, 1908
Author: Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Mental Institutions in America
Author: Gerald N. GrobPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
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 imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Biography by Americans, 1658-1936
Author: Edward H. O'NeillPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804940
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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