American psychosis : how the Federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system / E. Fuller Torrey, MD.

  • Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Physical description

x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-193) and index.

Contents

Joe Kennedy : a man with problems -- Robert Felix : a man with plans -- The birth of the federal mental health program: 1960-1963 -- The short, unhappy life of the federal mental health program: 1964-1970 -- The death of the federal mental health program: 1971-1980 -- The perfect storm: 1981-1999 -- Dimensions of the current disaster: 2000-2013 -- Solutions : what have we learned and what should we do?.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.RX.6
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ISBN

  • 9780199988716
  • 0199988714