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From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America
From Asylum to Community Mental Health Policy in Modern America
Author: Gerald N. Grob
The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post- World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public mental hospitals were the chief element in th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691047904
ISBN-10: 0691047901
Publication Date: 8/1991
Pages: 430
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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