Author: Pennsylvania State Lunatic HospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Rules and Regulations of the Penn'a State Lunatic Hospital, Harrisburg, Pa
Author: Pennsylvania State Lunatic HospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Compendium of the Laws of Pennsylvania
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Compilation of the Laws of Pennsylvania Relating to the Insane
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
A Digest of the Laws Relating to the Board of Public Charities of Pennslyvania and to the Various Subjects Within Its Jurisdiction with the Rules and Regulations of the Committee on Lunacy
Author: Pennsylvania. Board of public charitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office United-States Army
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army
Author: United States Army. Library of the Surgeon General's Office (Washington).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army ...
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description