Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission to Study the Whole Matter of Mentally Diseased in their Relation to the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
... Report of the Special Commission Established to Study the Whole Matter of the Mentally Diseased in Their Relation to the Commonwealth
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission to Study the Whole Matter of Mentally Diseased in their Relation to the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Report of the Special Commission Established to Study the Whole Matter of the Mentally Diseased in Their Relation to the Commonwealth
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission to Study the Whole Matter of Mentally Diseased in their Relation to the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Report of the Special Commission Established to Study the Whole Matter of the Mentally Diseased in Their Relation to the Commonwealth
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission on Mental DiseasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
Author: Gerald N. GrobPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691656800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigations by a study of the complex interrelationships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World War II. Challenging the now prevalent notion that mental hospitals in this period functioned as jails, he finds that, despite their shortcomings, they provided care for people unable to survive by themselves. From a rich variety of previously unexploited sources, he shows how professional and political concerns, rather than patient needs, changed American attitudes toward mental hospitals from support to antipathy. Toward the end of the 1800s psychiatrists shifted their attention toward therapy and the mental hygiene movement and away from patient care. Concurrently, the patient population began to include more aged people and people with severe somatic disorders, whose condition recluded their caring for themselves. In probing these changes, this work clarifies a central issue of decent and humane health care. Gerald N. Grob is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his works are Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (Free Press), Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (Tennessee), and The State and the Mentality III (North Carolina). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsAnnual Report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases
Author: Massachusetts. Department of Mental HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epilepsy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill
Author: United States. Federal Security Agency. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Annual Report of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Year Ending ...
Author: Massachusetts Commission on Mental DiseasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases for the Year Ending ...
Author: Massachusetts. Department of Mental HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epilepsy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Bridgewater
Author: Michael J. MaddiganPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439664005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Once known as MCI-Bridgewater and earlier as the Massachusetts State Farm, the Bridgewater Correctional Complex opened in 1854. It was one of several progressive charitable institutions the state created as a model for communities around the world. However, deteriorating conditions for its residents shadowed Bridgewater's evolution from an almshouse to a prison and hospital for the criminally insane. A century later, it was among the nation's most notorious asylums. Historian Michael J. Maddigan offers a riveting examination of this infamous history, including the inspiration for state-sponsored welfare, moral and legal challenges and the experiences of the people who lived and worked there.