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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bush, William S., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2016.
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.