American Decades
State Mental Hospitals
The Shame of the States
Nonfiction work
By: Albert Deutsch
Date: 1948
Source: Deutsch, Albert. The Shame of the States. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948.
About the Author: Albert Deutsch (1905–1961) was a well-known investigative journalist in the 1930s and author of multiple books.
The Snake Pit
Novel
By: Mary Jane Ward
Date: 1948
Source: Ward, Mary Jane. The Snake Pit. New York: Random House, 1946.
About the Author: Mary Jane Ward (1905–1981) was a novelist who suffered a mental breakdown and wrote an autobiographical novel of her experience in a state hospital.
Introduction
Several schools of psychology and psychiatry gained prominence in the 1930s and 1940s. One was the mental hygiene movement, pioneered by Clifford Beers and championed by...
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1940's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- "The Lessons of the Selective Service"
- "The Job Ahead"
- "The Diagnostic Value of Vaginal Smears in Carcinoma of the Uterus"
- Penicillin
- "Cut Excess Weight, Women Are Urged"
- "America Is Learning What to Eat"
- "Demerol, Newly Marketed as a Synthetic Substitute For Morphine, Ranks With Sulfa Drugs and Penicillin"
- "Tell 37-Year Rise in Better Eating"
- Hill-Burton Act
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- "Text of Truman Plea for Public Health Program"
- "Drug Aiding Fight on Tuberculosis"
- State Mental Hospitals
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
- "27,658 Polio Cases Listed Last Year"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
