Circuit riders for mental health : the Hogg Foundation in twentieth-century Texas /
Circuit Riders for Mental Health explores the transformation of popular understandings of mental health, the reform of scandal-ridden hospitals and institutions, the emergence of community mental health services, and the extension of mental health services to minority populations around the state of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2016.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Online access with DDA: Askews (Medicine)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Out of sight, out of mind
- "A mental health program for the people of Texas": the birth of the Hogg Foundation
- Spreading the gospel of mental health in the 1940s and 1950s
- "A real revolution in mental health concepts": the campaign for the rights of people with mental illness, 1942-57
- Branching out: the professionalization of mental health research and philanthropy
- "This most urgent of all health problems": community mental health in the 1960s
- The unfinished revolution, 1970-2000
- Epilogue: People first.