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"Mental Illness & American Society, 1875-1940" by Gerald Grob 1983 TPB Mental Illness Hospital History 1st/1st

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"Mental Illness & American Society, 1875-1940" by Gerald Grob 1983 TPB Mental Illness Hospital History 1st/1st

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VINTAGE 1983 Trade Paperback History Of Mental Illness Hospital Treatment In America to 1945 1st Edition 1st Printing. "Mental Illness & American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library, 5318)" by Gerald Grob. TRADE PAPERBACK 1983 Princeton University Press 1st Edition 1st Printing with "Copyright 1983" & with no additional printings on copyright page. Nice Collectible 1st Edition 1st Printing Trade Paperback. Exactly as shown in listing scan(s).

"Gerald N. Grob has been exploring the history of American mental hospitals for nearly twenty years, with emphasis on public policy. This book, which brings the story up to the Second World War, has a broader compass than his previous work in being more deeply concerned with public attitudes and the evolution of the psychiatric profession. It is also a counter-revisionist work, a careful scholars’s answer to Michel Foucault, David Rothman, Andrew Scull, and other historians who are united, Grob says, in having "a critical if not hostile view of psychiatry and mental hospitals."

Internally tight and unmarked. Binding Exterior; light handling wear/scattered small age spots to outside text block edges; no book slant. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, NOT DEFECTIVE, & GENUINE.

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