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Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
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Title: Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
Author: Rael Jean Isaac
ISBN: 9780029153819
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Volumes: 2
Number of Pages: 448
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.
Author: Rael Jean Isaac
ISBN: 9780029153819
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Volumes: 2
Number of Pages: 448
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.
