Awards

• Winner of MBA Nonfiction 2019
• Winner of MHA Garland 2019
• Winner of The Crusade for Forgotten Souls 2019

Overview

The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts Minnesota's reform movement that broke the stigmasurrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state'sasylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mentalhealth system. Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of the early advocates forcompassionate care of the mentally ill who made the crusade a success.

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9781517903640

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Reviews

Using rich empirical detail, Susan Bartlett Foote's integrated approach simultaneously reconstructs life in an asylum and a mental health reform campaign. Engla Schey's journal--a historian's dream resource--allows patients to speak, processes the attendants' experiences, and captures the culture of state institutions. Foote has managed to keep patients, medical workers, reformers, state policies, and the impact of changes visible throughout this story. --Jennifer Gunn, University of Minnesota

Author Information

Susan Bartlett Foote is professor emerita in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, where she was head of the Division of Health Policy and Management from 1999 to 2005. She is the author of Managing the Medical Arms Race: Business and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry.

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