Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts: Report of the Commission on Lunacy - Couverture rigide

Jarvis, Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674454804 ISBN 13 : 9780674454804

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1971

Synopsis

Gr. 8°. 4 Bl., 71 Seiten Introduction und X, 1 Blatt, 205 Seiten (S. 9-213) mit zahlreichen Tabellen im Text und 15 Seiten Anhang. Originalleinen mit Umschlag (= A Commonwealth Fund Book). Umschlag berieben und etwas rissig. - In his introduction to this much-needed reissue of the work commonly known as the Jarvis Report, Gerald N. Grob provides a detailed history of its background, which in effect is also a history of mental hospitals, psychiatry, and public policy in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Mr. Grob analyzes the report itself - largely the work of the influential and well-known medical figure of the times, Dr. Edward Jarvis - and discusses its influence on the development of public policy toward mental illness. Not only did the report provide a wealth of detailed statistics on the incidence of mental illness in one state, but through its discussion of the problems in terms of social, ethnic, and class factors, it became the forerunner of present-day policy. Indeed, it anticipated with unerring accuracy the future development of the public mental hospital as a welfare institution catering largely to individuals from minority ethnic groups and from the lower socio-economic strata of society.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0674454804
• ISBN 13: 9780674454804
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238