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Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill

By (author) Rael Jean Isaac, By (author) C. Virginia Armat





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De-institutionalization has been criticized for putting hundreds of mentally ill people on the streets. This book examines the social and political causes of de-institutionalization - the tendency in the 1960s to see the mentally ill as merely different, and hostility to institutional oppression.

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Publisher | Simon & Schuster
Published date | 1 Apr 1992
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 236 x 155 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 718g
ISBN | 978-0-0291-5381-9
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BISAC | social science / handicapped


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