Although things have changed a lot in the United States since 1840, if a modern day Dorothea Dix does not emerge, then in many ways they will remain the same. And that’s a real shame.
From the Editor
Psychiatry and the politics of incarceration
Current Psychiatry. 2012 October;11(10):4-5
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