Evolution of a Missouri Asylum
Subtitle: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: February 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780826216892
Subjects: American history; Mental health services; Social welfare & social services; History: American; Psychology; Missouri; Mental Illness; History; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History of Medicine; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Psychiatric hospitals
Description: "Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the continuing administrative challenges of overcrowding and chronic underfunding"--Provided by publisher.