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
