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Muckenhoupt, Margaret.
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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 -- Juvenile literature.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health care / Margaret Muckenhoupt.
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Muckenhoupt, Margaret.
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 -- Juvenile literature.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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0195129210 (hardback, alkaline paper)
9780195129212 (hardback, alkaline paper)
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Oxford portraits.
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127 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
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Traces the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted her time to improving the treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners in the United States.
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YA -- Biography
B Dix Mu
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