Author: Thomas ScattergoodPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Memoirs of Thomas Scattergood
Author: Thomas ScattergoodMemoirs of Thomas Scattergood
Author: Thomas ScattergoodMemoirs of Thomas Scattergood, Late of Philadelphia, a Minister of the Gospel of Christ. Compiled for the American Freinds' Library, Chiefly from His Notes and Letters, by Willaim Evans and Thomas Evans
Author: A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher:
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Memoirs of Thomas Scattergood, Late of Philadelphi
Author: Thomas ScattergoodPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104191702
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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.
The 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
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.