Word: mapperley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...break with insane traditions fostered by the supposedly sane came around midcentury, was pioneered by Dr. Duncan Macmillan at Mapperley Hospital in Nottingham, in England's Midlands. His program was virtually duplicated by Drs. Thomas P. Rees and Maxwell Jones at two hospitals in London suburbs...
...Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales dropping off my eyes." In 1957 he became director of Hudson River State Hospital on the edge of Poughkeepsie, 80 miles north of New York City. Of its nearly 6,000 patients, only 16% were then in open wards...
| 1 |