The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital

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The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital
Policy, Stigma, and Organization

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George W. Dowdall - Author

SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 262 pages

Release Date: April 1996

ISBN10: 0-7914-2895-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2895-5

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 262 pages

Release Date: April 1996

ISBN10: 0-7914-2896-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2896-2

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Summary

Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.

State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall explores recent efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to meet the increasingly elaborate standards imposed from without on the contemporary state mental hospital, and the impact of these efforts on the quality of care provided to its patients.

"The use of data to address many of the questions raised is most innovative. I believe this book would make a good contribution to the study of mental health treatment and policy." -- Clifford L. Broman, Michigan State University

George W. Dowdall is Professor of Sociology, St. Joseph's University and Adjunct Professor of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. State Mental Hospitals as the Organizaitonal Pivot of Policy

2. The Natural History of an Organizational Form: The State Mental Hospital

3. "A Most Noble Charity": The Birth of a State Asylum

4. Organizational Development: How the State Asylum Became the State Hospital

5. The State Hospital: Reform as Inertia

6. "Trying Times of Transition:" From State Hospital to Psychiatric Center

7. The Contemporary State Psychiatric Center: Up to Standards?

8. Public Policy and the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Future of the State Mental Hospital

Appendix A: Data Sources and Methods

Appendix B: Standards for State Mental Hospitals

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

American History
Health Care
Health and Society
Medical Sociology
Organization Theory
Psychiatry
Social Institutions
Sociology
Sociology of Organization
Social Psychology

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