Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health care /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Muckenhoupt, Margaret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
Series:Oxford portraits.
Subjects:
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, > 1802-1887 > Juvenile literature.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, > 1802-1887.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Mentally ill > Care > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Reformers.
Mentally ill > Care > History.
Women > Biography.
Réformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > États-Unis > Histoire > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Science > General.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > General.
Mentally ill > Care.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A girl begins her lonely journey
  • "The world is my home"
  • A teacher and an author
  • Beginning the great work
  • "I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness"
  • Moral treatment for prisoners
  • A veto at home, a welcome in Europe
  • A model of charity for the South
  • The American Florence Nightingale
  • More travel, more battles.

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