Title: Evolution of a Missouri asylum
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.
Subjects: Fulton State Hospital (Mo.), History, 19th Century, Psychiatry, History, 20th Century, History of Medicine, History, Psychiatric Hospitals, Missouri, history
Places: Missouri