Dix, Dorothea
(b. April 4, 1802; d. July 17, 1887) Superintendent of Women Nurses during the Civil War.
Dorothea Dix was a leading social reformer who advocated humane treatment of prisoners and the...
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Dorothea Lynde Dix
1802-1877
American who led the crusade to build state hospitals for the mentally ill. In 1841 Dix visited a correctional facility in Massachusetts and was stunned by the treatment o...
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an American reformer whose pioneer efforts to improve treatment of mental patients stimulated broad reforms in hospitals, jails, and asylums in the United States and...
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (4 April 1802-18 July 1887), reformer and miscellaneous writer, left an unhappy home environment in Hampden, Maine, when she was ten to live with her grandparents in Boston. In 1821...
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Dorothea Lynde Dix is best remembered for her work on behalf of the indigent, the insane, and the mentally disabled. She tirelessly lobbied the U.S. Congress and individual state legislatures alike fo...
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Dorothea Dix is known for her pioneering work in the field of mental health. Horrified at the abusive conditions in which the mentally ill were kept, Dix campaigned to have hospitals built to treat th...
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Dorothea Dix realized that in her time, the Massachusetts legislature consisted of men. She developed ways to incorporate gender appeal to inspire feeling and concern for the abuse and neglect endure...
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"There are few cases in history where a social movement of such proportions can be attributed to the work of a single individual" (Kovach) At the age of thirty-nine, a woman by the name of D...
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Dix, Dorothea
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix
