Dorothea Dix : Advocate for Mental Health Care.

Dorothea Dix : Advocate for Mental Health Care.

Examines Dorothea Dix's tireless research and personal lobbying of legislators led to construction of asylums for the mentally ill in state after state.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muckenhoupt, Margaret (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, April 2004.
Series:Oxford Portraits Ser.
Subjects:
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, > 1802-1887.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, > 1802-1887
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers
United States
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 A GIRL BEGINS HER LONELY JOURNEY
  • 2 "THE WORLD IS MY HOME"
  • Mother Explains a Factory
  • 3 A TEACHER AND AN AUTHOR
  • Student Letters
  • "I Am Now Obliged to Refuse You the Desired Gratification"
  • 4 BEGINNING THE GREAT WORK
  • Moral Treatment
  • 5 "I SHALL BE OBLIGED TO SPEAK WITH GREAT PLAINNESS"
  • "I Tell What I Have Seen!"
  • Astonishing Tenacity of Life
  • 6 MORAL TREATMENT FOR PRISONERS
  • "I Would Not Have the Officers Become Preachers"
  • 7 A VETO AT HOME, A WELCOME IN EUROPE
  • 8 A MODEL OF CHARITY FOR THE SOUTH
  • 9 THE AMERICAN FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
  • War Work
  • 10 MORE TRAVEL, MORE BATTLES
  • AFTERWORD
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • FURTHER READING
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • W
  • Z.

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