Dorothea Dix: Advocate for Mental Health Care (Oxford Portraits) by Meg Muckenhoupt

Dorothea Dix: Advocate for Mental Health Care (Oxford Portraits)

Meg Muckenhoupt

128 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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By exposing the sickening conditions people with mental illness endured in jails, almshouses, and basement cells, Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) single-handedly transformed the U.S. system of mental health care in the 19th century. Dix traveled from sta...

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