Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
State Charities Aid Association Annual Report
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)
Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin
Author: Wisconsin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Annual Report of the Comptroller of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Annual Report of the Comptroller, State of New York
Author: New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees
Author: John M. Harris Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003821340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003821340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.
Annual Report of the Secretary of State for the Year ...
Author: California. Secretary of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Damnation Island
Author: Stacy Horn
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell’s Island.” —Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell’s Island.” —Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.