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Search - Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Breaking the Chains The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix Author: Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were ?confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens ? chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.? Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade for the humane treatment of people with mental illnes... more »
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- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Professionals & Academics >> Medical
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
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- Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Poverty >> Social Services & Welfare
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> General
- Medicine >> Special Topics >> History