Author: Dowdall, George W.
Title: The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization (Suny Series in Sociology of Work)
Description: State University of New York Press, 1996. Soft Cover. 262p illustrated index. Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals. State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall explores recent efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to meet the increasingly elaborate standards imposed from without on the contemporary state mental hospital, and the impact of these efforts on the quality of care provided to its patients. The author, George W. Dowdall, is Professor of Sociology, St. Joseph's University and Adjunct Professor of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine. The book is clean, tight without marks or signatures and appears unused. See scans. (ISBN: 0791428966).. Near Fine

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