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Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Description:In an era when woman's work centered primarily on hearth and home, Dorothea Lynde Dix won the respect of men and women alike through her quiet determination and selfless dedication to help those imprisoned in troubled minds. Freud was just a boy during the years Dix traveled across the United States, later to Europe and Japan, to found scores of hospitals for the indigent insane. Weakened by chronic tuberculosis, Dix doggedly pursued her cause. During the Civil War, she put her work for the mentally ill on hold to supervise nurses who treated wounded soldiers. Despite her ill health, Dix lived to be 85, dying in 1887 in the first hospital she had founded, in Trenton, N.J.[From Publishers Weekly]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix. To get started finding Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In an era when woman's work centered primarily on hearth and home, Dorothea Lynde Dix won the respect of men and women alike through her quiet determination and selfless dedication to help those imprisoned in troubled minds. Freud was just a boy during the years Dix traveled across the United States, later to Europe and Japan, to found scores of hospitals for the indigent insane. Weakened by chronic tuberculosis, Dix doggedly pursued her cause. During the Civil War, she put her work for the mentally ill on hold to supervise nurses who treated wounded soldiers. Despite her ill health, Dix lived to be 85, dying in 1887 in the first hospital she had founded, in Trenton, N.J.[From Publishers Weekly]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix. To get started finding Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion of the Mentally Ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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