From Asylum to Community : : Mental Health Policy in Modern America / / Gerald N. Grob.
The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in Text
- Prologue
- CHAPTER ONE. The Lessons of War, 1941-1945
- CHAPTER TWO. The Reorganization of Psychiatry
- CHAPTER THREE. Origins of Federal Intervention
- CHAPTER FOUR. Mental Hospitals under Siege
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Mental Health Professions: Conflict and Consensus
- CHAPTER SIX. Care and Treatment: Changing Views
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Changing State Policy
- CHAPTER EIGHT. A National Campaign: The Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health
- CHAPTER NINE. From Advocacy to Policy
- CHAPTER TEN. From Institution to Community
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Challenges to Psychiatric Legitimacy
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Sources
- Index