The Life and Works of Dorothea Dix (1571 words, 4 pages)
Dorothea DixBorn in 1802, Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as being punished by God, as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that that people of such standing would do ...
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