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Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health care
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Margaret Muckenhoupt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
- ©2003
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 0198029586, 9780198029588, 1280564199, 9781280564192, 9780195129212, 0190284609, 1423774434, 9780190284602, 9781423774433, 0195129210
- OCLC
- ocm53098957, ocm45684975
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- English
- 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