Evolution of a Missouri asylum : Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 /

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Author / Creator:Lael, Richard L., 1946-
Imprint:Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
Description:xvii, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6264354
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Other authors / contributors:Brazos, Barbara, 1947-
McMillen, Margot Ford.
ISBN:9780826216892 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0826216897 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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.