Author: Rhode Island. Commissioner on Condition of Poor and InsanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Report on the Poor and Insane in Rhode Island
Author: Rhode Island. Commissioner on Condition of Poor and InsanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Bibliography of Rhode Island
Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Authors and Subjects
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the General Court
Author: Documents Printed by Order of the Senate ...
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
Book Description
Catalogue of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description