The New York Hospital. a History of the Psychiatric Service 1771–1936 / / William Logie Russell.
Studies the history of the treatment of the mentally ill at New York Hospital from its establishment in 1771. Looks at the start where chains, flogging, and other severe measures were considered necessary, to advances in medicine, psychiatry, and services through occupational, recreational and socia...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1945] ©1945 |
| Year of Publication: | 1945 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mental Illness and Social Policy. The American Experience
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (574 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART ONE. Introduction: The Close of the Eighteenth Century
- PART TWO. The First Hospital in New York and Its Department of Psychiatry, 1771-1821
- PART THREE. The Founding of Bloomingdale Asylum, 1815—1840
- PART FOUR. A Transition Period, 1840-1852
- PART FIVE. Planning for Classification and Removal—State Supervision and Laws, 1852-1877
- PART SIX. A Medically Directed Private Charity, 1877-1894
- PART SEVEN. The Dawn of Modern Scientific Psychiatry at Bloomingdale, 1894-1911
- PART EIGHT. Fulfillment of Some Long-cherished Aspirations, 1911-1926
- PART NINE. A Complete Organization for Service, Education, and Research, 1926-193
- APPENDICES
- INDEX