From Asylum to Community : Mental Health Policy in Modern America /

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The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public...

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Autor principal: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Volksgezondheid.
Geestelijke gezondheidszorg.
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Gesundheitspolitik
Mental health policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
PSYCHOLOGY > History.
Sante mentale > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Health Policy > history
Mental Health Services > history
Mental health policy > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations Used in Text
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Lessons of War, 1941-1945
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Reorganization of Psychiatry
  • CHAPTER THREE. Origins of Federal Intervention
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Mental Hospitals under Siege
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Mental Health Professions: Conflict and Consensus
  • CHAPTER SIX. Care and Treatment: Changing Views
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Changing State Policy
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. A National Campaign: The Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health
  • CHAPTER NINE. From Advocacy to Policy
  • CHAPTER TEN. From Institution to Community
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Challenges to Psychiatric Legitimacy
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Sources
  • Index.

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