people with mental dysfunction emphasized moral guidance‚ humane‚ and respectful treatment. Asylums were built to care for people with mental illness. Moral treatment in the U.S. began at this time led by Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania and later Dorothea Dix.
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The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement’s ranks were mostly filled by women who‚ with their children‚ had endured the effects of uncontrolled drinking by many of their husbands. These organizations used many arguments to convince their countrymen of the evils of alcohol. They argued that alcohol was a cause of poverty. They said that drunk
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The pioneers of nursing are those people like the Alexian Brothers‚ Walt Whitman‚ and Dorothea Lynde Dix. A true nurse is a person who has compassion and a sense of responsibility for caring for people in need both physically and psychologically through hard times. They‚ in my point of view‚ were just as important in the development of nursing through time as Florence Nigthingale‚ Elizabeth Neil‚ Henrietta Edwards‚ and Alice Magaw. They all shared the most important nursing quality: passion to help
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Civil War Medicine By: Julia Ljubicich 8-1 Medicine played a very important role in the civil war. Though‚ some people believe the field hospitals were able to keep themselves clean‚ this was not always the case. In reality‚ the hospitals could have been as dangerous to the soldiers as the front lines. For a Civil War soldier‚ the field hospital could have been worse‚ to them‚ than the battle itself. The temporary hospitals were quickly set up near battlefields and doctors usually
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The asylum reforms were where they built institutes for the mentally ill. A big contributor in this was Dorothea Dix. She once saw mentally ill people in Massachusetts getting beaten and treated awfully‚ so she tried to help them. She came up with many treatments for them. Her and the reformers believed that they can turn these people’s lives around with these institutes and treatments. Also‚ Dix wrote a factual information
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first modern war? B. How did a war preserve the union become a war to end slavery? C. How did the war affect the economy of the Confederacy? D. What were the military and political turning points of the war? II. Vocabulary 1. Fort Sumter 13. Dorothea Dix 2. Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) 14. Morrill Land Grant‚ 1862 3. Monitor v. Merrimack 15. Habeas Corpus Act‚ 1863 4. Jefferson Davis 16. Radical Republicans 5. Conscription Act‚ 1862 and 1863 17. Copperheads 6. New York City Draft Riots
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In America‚ social achievements between 1800 and 1840 were more significant than political achievements because their effects dramatically shaped American culture. The Second Great Awakening brought about many of these changes; the spiritual revival brought attention to the need for social reform. People grew more concerned with the welfare of others‚ and movements were made to promote temperance‚ women’s rights‚ public education‚ and improved prisons. In 1826‚ the American Temperance Society was
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certainly didn’t help that they were put on display‚ shackled and locked away in seclusion. Fortunately‚ in 1841‚ a Boston school teacher‚ Dorothea Dix‚ saw the treatment of the mentally ill and was understandably horrified. She aimed to do something to fix that and fought for new laws and greater government funding to improve the treatment of people with mental disorders. Dix also personally helped establish 32 state hospitals that offered moral treatment to those who were in dire need of it. She influenced
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reform‚ the temperance cause‚ the women’s movement and feminization of religion‚ and the crusade to abolish slavery. Some of the key people of the Awakening were Charles Grandison Finney who led a series of revivals in Rochester and New York‚ Dorothea Dix‚ who stirred others to “create a system to deal with the mentally ill”‚ and Pete Cartwright‚ a Methodist. In my opinion‚ if the Second Great Awakening had not taken place‚ the reform movements would not have taken place either. The Second Great
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replacing asylums with national networks of community-based mental health centers to better the lives of the ones affected. The first attempt at deinstitutionalization was in 1854 when Dorothea Dix requested to put 10 million aside for mental health facilities with the help of the Congress. President Franklin Pierce told Dix that it fixing the health system care was an overreach of their job and vetoed the final bill. Today deinstitutionalization brings both positives and negatives to communities affected
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