[pols, curr ev, healthcare, US] Dumont on US political profiling, 60s and 90s

Nov 20, 2016 16:42

My bedside reading is a book on the history of the community mental health system, from the 1950s to 1992, when it was written: Treating the Poor: A Personal Sojourn Through the Rise and Fall Of Community Mental Health, by Matthew P. Dumont, MD. It was actually a discard by another therapist in Cambridge, and I snatched it up not least because, in ( Read more... )

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siderea November 21 2016, 00:15:54 UTC
Ha! Far out! Where were you geographically? I gather this book is kind of famous in some circles? I had no idea when I fished it out of the trash.

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siderea November 21 2016, 01:36:07 UTC
Not so far out then. :)

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Quotes thetimesink November 21 2016, 21:45:00 UTC
...just a social scientist and the ultimate use...

"...whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

1968, 1980, 2016...

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apostle_of_eris November 24 2016, 14:32:54 UTC
Makes me proud to be an agnostic Hellenized Jew.

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