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Dr. Francis T. Stribling And Moral Medicine: Curing The Insane At Virginia's Western State Hospital: 1836-1874

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Introduction	13	(2)
Chapter 1: The Early Years	15	(10)
Chapter 2: A Bold New Physician	25	(6)
Chapter 3: Stribling Changes Practices, Policies, and Laws	31	(13)
Chapter 4: Activities at Western State	44	(23)
Chapter 5: Contention Between Western State and Eastern State	67	(40)
Chapter 6: Dorothea Dix and Dr. Francis T Stribling-An Intense Friendship	107	(8)
Chapter 7: Charges of Patient Abuse at Western State	115	(13)
Chapter 8: The Demise of Moral Medicine in Virginia and Elsewhere	128	(14)
Chapter 9: Treatment of Insane Blacks in Virginia	142	(17)
Chapter 10: The Civil War years	159	(13)
Chapter 11: After the War	172	(14)
Chapter 12: Western State Today	186	(3)
Epilogue	189	(4)
Appendix A: Instructions to Western State employees	193	(4)
Appendix B: Superintendents Discuss Restraints	197	(6)
Appendix C: The Medical "Ireatment of Insanity as Described by Dr. Samuel B. Woodward	203	(22)
Appendix D: Western State Statistics-1825-1871	225	(8)
Appendix E: Insanity in the United States in 1840 (Based on the 1840 Census)	233	(8)
Additional Images	241	(8)
Acknowledgements	249	(2)
Glossary	251	(4)
General Bibliography	255	(6)
End Notes	261	(16)
Index	277