Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940

"Gerald Grob examines the complex interrealtionships 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."--Back cover.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Princeton University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

448

ISBN

9780691024134

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata