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Closing the Asylums : Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement by George Paulson, M.D. is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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<p> One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the traditional state hospitals that housed most of the mentally ill, and the placement of the patients out into the community. The causes of this deinstitutionalization included both idealism and legal pressures, newly effective medications, the establishment of nursing and group homes, the woeful inadequacy of the aging giant hospitals, and an attitudinal change that emphasized environ
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- George Paulson, M.D.
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786492664
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25