Evolution of a Missouri asylum Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 /
"Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the continuing a...
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2007.
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Summary: | "Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the continuing administrative challenges of overcrowding and chronic underfunding"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | xvii, 252 p. : ill. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |