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Illness, Work, and Poverty : The Hospital / Factory in Rehabilitation

by Query, William T

First Edition

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Book desription: San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1968. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A study of a mental hospital in which the concepts of mental illness are replaced by concepts of social incompetence and poverty, with psychiatric treatment focusing on rehabilitation, work, and social competence. Author offers a work program as the basis of this study, with novel treatments of patients geared towards establishing or restoring their social role effectiveness. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains charts, tables, appendices, bibliography, indexed, 266pp., several blank fep pages show edges clipped. A nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Rare.. ISBN: 68-21321. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Work, Poverty, Workers, Social Sciences, Sociology, Illness, Disease, Hospitals, Health, Nurses, Nursing, Doctors, Patients, Rehabilitation, Factories, Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis.

  • Bookseller: JB Books US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 00013876
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
  • Place: San Francisco
  • Date published: 1968
  • Subjects: EDUCATION / General;

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