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Author Muckenhoupt, Margaret

Title Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health care / Margaret Muckenhoupt
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford portraits
Oxford portraits.
Contents A girl begins her lonely journey -- "The world is my home" -- A teacher and an author -- Beginning the great work -- "I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness" -- Moral treatment for prisoners -- A veto at home, a welcome in Europe -- A model of charity for the South -- The American Florence Nightingale -- More travel, more battles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-123) and index
Notes English
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Subject Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 -- Juvenile literature
SUBJECT Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. fast (OCoLC)fst00009925
Subject Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Reformers
Mentally ill -- Care -- History
Women -- Biography
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Science -- General.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- General.
Mentally ill -- Care.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003017874
ISBN 1423774434
9781423774433
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9781280564192
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