The Crusade for Forgotten Souls : Reforming Minnesota's Mental Institutions, 1946-1954 /

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"The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts Minnesota's reform movement that broke the stigma surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system. Susan Bartlett Foote tells...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychiatric nursing.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Internement (Psychiatrie) > Histoire.
History, 20th Century
Hospitals, Psychiatric > organization & administration
Psychiatric Nursing > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
Commitment of Mentally Ill > history
Psychiatric nursing > History.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > History.
Minnesota
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts Minnesota's reform movement that broke the stigma surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system. Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of the early advocates for compassionate care of the mentally ill who made the crusade a success"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781452956787

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