From the end of the Civil War to the onset of the Great War, the United States experienced
an unprecedented increase in commitment rates for mental asylums. Historians and …

From the end of the Civil War to the onset of the Great War, the United States experienced
an unprecedented increase in commitment rates for mental asylums. Historians and …

In the United States between 1880 and the 1920s, unprecedented numbers of people were
confined in mental hospitals, leading many contemporary observers to conclude that the …

Why do levels of public service provision vary across governments? This dissertation
examines this question in the context of services for vulnerable populations, and in …

Historians of the American mental hospital still do not firmly grasp who mental hospital
patients were. Although the field's signature debate on the nature of the mental hospital as …

This dissertation tracks a peculiar “re-institutionalization” between 1945 and 1990, showing
how involuntary confinement in psychiatric hospitals and prisons transformed in both …

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950
and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and …

ANNE E. PARSONS of mental-health institutions that stands in contrast to the more punitive
southern penal system. 1 In the 1970s incarceration rose at least four-fold because of harsh …

The ideology of insane asylum reform, which emphasized the Enlightenment language of
human rights and the humane treatment of the mentally ill, reached American shores in the …

" Deinstitutionalization" refers to the process whereby those mental hospitals (primarily state
and county funded) which have housed most of America's mental patients have been …