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Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940

Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5316

General SociologyGeneral United States HistoryMental Health

ISBN10: 0691656800
ISBN13: 9780691656809
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 29 2019
Pages: 448
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

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.

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