Book ID: CBB000101156

Gracefully Insane: The Rise and the Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital (2001)

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Beam, Alex (Author)


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Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 288 pp. + 8 pp., illus., notes, index
Language: English

Description History of McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1817 to today and its famous patients.


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Review Grob, Gerald N. (2003) Review of "Gracefully Insane: The Rise and the Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (p. 96). unapi

Review Kneeland, Timothy W. (2004) Review of "Gracefully Insane: The Rise and the Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 144). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Summers, Martin
Coleborne, Catharine
Monika Ankele
Jamieson, Anna
Gollo, Francesca
Salustri, Marco
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Patients
Mental disorders and diseases
Clinical psychology
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Italy
United States
New Zealand
Germany
Australia
Ontario (Canada)
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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