Mental hygiene laws in brief : summaries for each of the states and the District of Columbia : with special reference to administrative provisions for the care of the mentally ill and the statutes relating to the criminal insane, delinquent defectives, inebriates and drug addicts, and sterilization of the unfit

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Ballard, Frances Anne, compiler.

Fuller, Raymond Garfield, 1886- editor.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health laws--United States.

Mental health laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 339 pages).

Place of Publication:

1941

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477836106