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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828807903321

Autore

Muckenhoupt Margaret

Titolo

Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health care / / Margaret Muckenhoupt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-19-028460-9

0-19-802958-6

1-280-56419-9

1-4237-7443-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford portraits

Disciplina

362.21092

Soggetti

Women social reformers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

A girl begins her lonely journey -- "The world is my home" -- A teacher and an author -- Beginning the great work  -- "I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness" -- Moral treatment for prisoners -- A veto at home, a welcome in Europe -- A model of charity for the South -- The American Florence Nightingale -- More travel, more battles.