The State and the Mentally Ill: A History of Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830-1920

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First of Grob's books on the history of mental health & its treatment in America; he went on to write four more after becoming a professor of the history of medicine at Rutgers. This book, published while the author taught history at Clark, won the third annual American Association for State and Local History manuscript award, and depicts the changes over almost a century in one hospital of theory, policy, treatment, & public attitude towards mental illness. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, bottom edge dented & nicked; jacket shows minor edgewear, light chipping, hint of spine tanning, $7.50 price intact; ink name (historian Allan G. Bogue) on free endsheet. Text clean; xv, blank, 399 pages; index, bibliography, tables. Size: Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo w0305

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