Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 - Hardcover

Lael, Richard L.; Brazos, Barbara; McMillen, Margot Ford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826216897 ISBN 13: 9780826216892

Verlag: University of Missouri Press, 2007

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"Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the continuing administrative challenges of overcrowding and chronic underfunding"--Provided by publisher.

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Richard L. Lael is Professor of History at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and author of The Yamashita Precedent: War Crimes and Command Responsibility. Barbara Brazos is a Registered Nurse at Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center in Columbia. Margot Ford McMillen is an adjunct instructor in English at Westminster College, whose five other books include Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (University of Missouri Press).

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• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826216897
• ISBN 13: 9780826216892
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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