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Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940

by Gerald N. Grob

1983 428 pages eng

"Gerald Grob examines the complex interrealtionships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World War II. Challenging the now prevalent notion that mental hospitals in this period functioned as jails, he finds that, despite their shortcomings, they provided car…

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