Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875
Gerald N. Grobis the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine (emeritus) at Rutgers University. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has been the president of the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is the author ofThe Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in Americaand, most recently, (with Howard H. Goldman)The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change?