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Author Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015

Title Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940 / Gerald N. Grob.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1983]
©1983

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.209 G873M    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 428 pages
Contents Prologue -- The mental hospital -- American psychiatry: a specialty adrift -- The transformation of psychiatry -- The search for public policy -- The quest for psychiatric authority -- The mental hygiene movement -- The invisible patient -- Dilemmas of control: accountability versus autonomy -- The emergence of the mental health professionals -- The psychiatric response -- Mental hospitals and psychiatry between the wars -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
Mental Disorders -- history.
ISBN 0691083320: $25.00
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