Dorothea Dix - Champion for the Mentally Ill

Informationen zum Autor Meg Muckenhoupt has written articles on travel in Boston and local environmental issues for The Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine and the Time Out Boston guide. Her book Sigmund Freud: Explorer of the Unconscious (Oxford University Press) won the American Academy of Sciences 1998 Best science Books for Junior High and High school readers, and has been translated into seven languages. Sheholds a certificate in Field Botany from the New England Wild Flower Society. 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 state to state, describing the hideous suffering people who were both poor and mentally ill endured at the hands of their captors. Her tireless research and personal lobbying of legislators led to construction of asylums for the mentally ill in state after state.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Muckenhoupt
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2004
• EAN: 9780195129212
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512921-2
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 260 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Portraits
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine