Tag: danvers state hospital

• The Asylum Life: House on the Hill

  

  Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts is famous for its heavy use and refinement of the prefrontal lobotomy, leading neurology historians to call it the “birthplace” of the procedure

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 11, 2015

  health

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• Dorothea Dix Social Reformer

  

  Dorothea Dix was an educator and social reformer whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread international reforms.

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 7, 2015

  nurses

  danvers state hospital, dorothea dix, maine, massachusetts, mental illness, metropolitan state hospital, nurses, nurses week, nursing, social reform, state hospitals, worcester