Author: Richard L. Lael
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826265545
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"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.