Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674454804
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674454804
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674454804
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mental Institutions in America
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy, 1854
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A List of the Official Publications of the Confederate States Government in the Virginia State Library and the Library of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Author: Virginia State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Public Health
Author: Dona Schneider
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813542324
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this important reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. Major illnesses such as cancer, HIV, and tuberculosis are addressed, along with lifestyle concerns, such as tobacco and nutrition. Chapters also explore maternal-child and women's health, dental public health, health economics and ethics, and the role of philanthropy. Each chapter begins with an in-depth introduction, followed by three original articles that illustrate the problem. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public health into the new millennium.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813542324
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this important reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. Major illnesses such as cancer, HIV, and tuberculosis are addressed, along with lifestyle concerns, such as tobacco and nutrition. Chapters also explore maternal-child and women's health, dental public health, health economics and ethics, and the role of philanthropy. Each chapter begins with an in-depth introduction, followed by three original articles that illustrate the problem. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public health into the new millennium.
Catalogue. [With] Index to the subject-matter of the works contained in the Catalogue
Author: Royal statistical society libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Man and Abnormal Man
Author: Arthur MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Collected Works ...
Author: Theodore Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Black Boston
Author: George A. Levesque
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351180584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351180584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.
Christian Examiner and Theological Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description