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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 20, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):273-275; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp048
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, Please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Evolution Of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851–2006

Jeff D. Corrigan

The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia

EVOLUTION OF A MISSOURI ASYLUM: FULTON STATE HOSPITAL, 1851–2006. By Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 252 pp. Hardbound, $39.95.

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Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen have written an informative book on the 155-year-old history of Missouri’s first lunatic asylum. Besides serving as a history of how Missouri has dealt with the issue of mental health and illness, this book also sheds light on the asylum movement that was developing throughout the country during the mid- to late-nineteenth century in the U.S. Missouri had only been a state for twenty-three years when Governor Meredith Marmaduke decided to address the issue in 1844. Governor Marmaduke realized that jails, which . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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