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From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America (Princeton Legacy Library)
From Asylum to Community Mental Health Policy in Modern America - Princeton Legacy Library
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 the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691601618
ISBN-10: 0691601615
Publication Date: 7/14/2014
Pages: 430
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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