Gerald N. Grob

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The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill (1995) (238)
Origins of DSM-I: a study in appearance and reality. (1991) (217)
From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America (1991) (202)
The Keepers and the Kept@@@Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930. (1982) (141)
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (1984) (113)
The Mentally Ill and Other Social Misfits in America@@@Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875. (1974) (101)
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland@@@Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England (1983) (96)
The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History, and: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (review) (2015) (78)
Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History (2006) (70)
The Rise and Decline of Tonsillectomy in Twentieth-Century America (2007) (64)
The paradox of deinstitutionalization (1995) (61)
Public policy and mental illnesses: Jimmy Carter's Presidential Commission on Mental Health. (2005) (57)
Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (1973) (55)
The state and the mentally ill : a history of Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830-1920 (1967) (52)
Defining 'mental illness' in mental health policy. (2006) (52)
The Illusion of Educational Omnipotence@@@The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973, A History of the Public Schools as Battlefield of Social Change. (1975) (51)
The origins of American psychiatric epidemiology. (1985) (49)
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing. By L. Zenderland. (Pp. 448; £45.00.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. (1999) (46)
Workers and Utopia: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the American Labor Movement, 1865-1900 (1962) (44)
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (2009) (43)
Mental health policy in America: myths and realities. (1992) (41)
The checkered history of American psychiatric epidemiology. (2011) (38)
The forging of mental health policy in America: World War II to new frontier. (1987) (37)
Government and mental health policy: a structural analysis. (1994) (34)
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2002) (34)
Psychiatry's Holy Grail: The Search for the Mechanisms of Mental Diseases (1998) (34)
The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? (2006) (32)
Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917. By Nathan G. Hale, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xvi + 574 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) (1972) (27)
American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860 (1984) (26)
The attack of psychiatric legitimacy in the 1960s: rhetoric and reality. (2011) (24)
Mental health policy in the liberal state: the example of the United States. (2008) (22)
Organized labor and the Negro worker, 1865–1900 (1960) (22)
Rediscovering asylums: the unhistorical history of the mental hospital. (1977) (22)
Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia (2011) (21)
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (review) (2003) (20)
Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives (1982) (20)
Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (1980) (19)
Mad, homeless, and unwanted. A history of the care of the chronic mentally ill in America. (1994) (19)
History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Volume IV, The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917. (1966) (19)
From Aging to Pathology: The Case of Osteoporosis (2010) (18)
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (2009) (15)
The social history of medicine and disease in America: problems and possibilities. (1977) (14)
The state mental hospital in mid-nineteenth-century America: a social analysis. (1966) (13)
From hospital to community: Mental health policy in modern America (2005) (13)
Abuse in American mental hospitals in historical perspective: myth and reality. (1980) (13)
A melancholy scene of devastation: the public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic (1999) (13)
A History of the Mental Health Services. By Kathleen Jones (London and Boston; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. xiii plus 414 pp. $15.00) (1974) (12)
The Rise of Peptic Ulcer, 1900-1950 (2003) (12)
The Transformation of the Mental Hospital in the United States (1985) (11)
The Fielding H. Garrison lecture. Psychiatry and social activism: the politics of a specialty in postwar America. (1986) (11)
Defining 'Mental Illness' In Mental Health Policy Diagnosis does not efficiently measure the need for treatment; we have better methods for managing scarce resources. (2006) (11)
The inner world of American psychiatry, 1890-1940 : selected correspondence (1985) (11)
Adolf MEYER on American psychiatry in 1895. (1963) (10)
Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis (2014) (10)
Mental health policy in post-World War II America. (1987) (10)
Insanity, institutions and society, 1800–1914: a social history of madness in comparative perspective (2000) (10)
Historical origins of deinstitutionalization. (1983) (9)
REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL POLICY IN AMERICA (1979) (9)
Marxian analysis and mental illness (1990) (9)
Creation of the National Institute of Mental Health. (1996) (8)
Deinstutionalization: The Illusion of Policy (1997) (8)
Samuel B. WOODWARD and the practice of psychiatry in early nineteenth century America. (1962) (8)
Class, ethnicity, and race in American mental hospitals, 1830-75. (1973) (6)
The Knights of Labor and the Trade Unions, 1878–1886 (1958) (6)
The Transformation of American Psychiatry (2008) (6)
Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Policy triumph or tragedy? (2004) (5)
Edward Jarvis and the Federal census: a chapter in the history of nineteenth-century American medicine. (1976) (5)
Nineteenth-century medical attitudes toward alcoholic addiction : six studies, 1814-1867 (1981) (5)
Drugs in America: A Social History, 1800–1980. By H. Wayne Morgan. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 233. $20.00 (1983) (5)
American psychiatry: from hospital to community in modern America. (1996) (5)
Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849 (review) (2001) (5)
Peptic ulcer in twentieth-century America. (2004) (4)
The Rise of Fibromyalgia in 20th-Century America (2011) (4)
Gerald Grob's The state and the mentally ill: a turning point in the study of the American mental hospital. (1990) (4)
Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums & Nineteenth-Century American Culture (review) (2011) (4)
Reform Unionism: The National Labor Union (1954) (4)
American Political History as Social Analysis: Essays by Samuel P. Hays (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. 459 pp.) (1982) (3)
American Social History Before 1860 (1970) (3)
The severely and chronically mentally ill in America: retrospect and prospect. (1991) (3)
American Perceptions of Drug Addiction: Five Studies, 1872-1912 (1981) (3)
ORIGINS OF THE STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL: A CASE STUDY. (1965) (3)
Art: A leap into the future (2003) (3)
Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945–1970 by Martin Halliwell (review) (2014) (2)
The evolution of fibromyalgia in modern America. (2014) (2)
On the threshold: Illusion and reality in American psychiatric thought. (1999) (2)
Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane. By Mary Ann Jimenez (Hanover and London: Published for Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, 1987. ix plus 219 pp.) (1988) (2)
American psychiatry: an ambivalent specialty. (1987) (2)
The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870–1920. By Warren R. Van Tine. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 230. $10.00 (1974) (2)
Community Mental Health Policy in America: Lessons Learned. (2016) (2)
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence (2017) (2)
Narcotic addiction and American foreign policy : seven studies, 1924-1938 (1981) (2)
The Medical professions and drug addiction : six studies, 1882-1932 (1981) (2)
The Troubled History of Psychiatry's Quest for Specificity. (2016) (2)
American Ideas Source Readings in the Intellectual History of the United States (1963) (2)
Statesmen and statecraft of the modern west : essays in honor of Dwight E. Lee and H. Donaldson Jordan (1968) (2)
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (review) (1998) (2)
The American Idea of Industrial Democracy, 1865–1965. By Milton Derber. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1970. Pp. xv+ 553. $9.50 (1971) (1)
New Wine in New Bottles: The History of Health Policy@@@Health Policies, Health Politics: The British and American Experience, 1911-1965.@@@Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937.@@@A Political Economy of Medicine: Great Britain and the United States. (1987) (1)
CHAPTER ONE. The Lessons of War, 1941-1945 (1991) (1)
The Rise of Teamster Power in the West. By Donald Garnel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 363. $12.50 (1972) (1)
The Demise of the Asylum@@@Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940. (1984) (1)
Book reviews (1972) (1)
The Lincoln Legend (1961) (1)
Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848–1896. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1973. xiv + 274 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $11.50.) (1974) (1)
The Ambivalent Character of American Psychiatry (2004) (1)
CAROL R. BYERLY. The Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I. New York: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 250. Cloth $65.00, paper $21.00 (2006) (1)
Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (review) (2008) (1)
Mental Retardation and Public Policy in America: A Research Agenda* (1986) (1)
Immigrants and insanity : dissenting views, 1883-1914 (1980) (1)
Doing Good and Getting Worse: The Dilemma of Social Policy (1979) (1)
Sidney Fine on the Intellectual Origins of the General Welfare State: Or, what Happened to Social and Intellectual History?@@@Laissez Faire and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901. (1984) (1)
Origins of medical attitudes toward drug addiction in America : eight studies, 1791-1858 (1981) (1)
Interpretations of American History Patterns and Perspectives [Edited by] Gerald N. Grob and George A. Billias (1967) (1)
Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future (review) (2012) (1)
The National Association for the Protection of the Insane and the Prevention of Insanity (1980) (1)
Commentary: A psychiatric epidemiological pioneer--Arthur Mitchell's follow-up of study of hospitalized patients. (2010) (1)
Risk factors: how well do they explain disease etiology? (2008) (1)
Mental hygiene in twentieth century America : four studies, 1921-1924 (1980) (0)
Radicalism & Reform: The Vrooman Family and American Social Thought, 1837-1937 (review) (2013) (0)
Labor and Socialism in America: The Gompers Era. By William M. Dick. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1972. Pp. 211. $10.95 (1974) (0)
Sherwin B. Nuland (1930-2014). (2014) (0)
The Forging of Mental Health Policy in America: World War II to New Frontier (1999) (0)
A cautionary tale: tonsillectomy in modern America. (2008) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Changing State Policy (1991) (0)
Books Received (1968) (0)
Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing (review) (2000) (0)
Book Review:The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd (1986) (0)
Donald S. Napoli. Architects of Adjustment: The History of the Psychological Profession in the United States. (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1981. Pp. 176. $20.00 (1982) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. The Mental Health Professions: Conflict and Consensus (1991) (0)
Book Review:Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk (1999) (0)
American History: Restrospect and Prospect (1972) (0)
Mental Disability in America Since World War II. By Don Martindale and Edith Martindale (New York: Philosophical Library, 1985. xiv plus 295 pp. $15.00) (1987) (0)
Health, education and welfare (1978) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. A National Campaign: The Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health (1991) (0)
Public policy and mental illness : four investigations, 1915-1939 (1980) (0)
Psychiatry and medical education : two studies (1980) (0)
Interpretations of American History Patterns and Perspectives /Gerald N. Grob, George Athan Billias. --. -- (1972) (0)
Book Review: Christopher Payne, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (with an essay by Oliver Sachs), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2009; 209 pp.: ISBN 9780262013499, $39.95 (hbk) (2010) (0)
BHR volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1972) (0)
Pathologizing old age: the case of osteoporosis. (2011) (0)
The care and treatment of the mentally ill. Essay review. (1988) (0)
Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia (review) (2011) (0)
Gracefully insane: The rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital (2003) (0)
The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry (review) (2010) (0)
Poverty in New York 1783–1825. By Raymond A. Mohl (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 318 + xvii pp. $8.50) (1972) (0)
We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World . By Melvyn Dubofsky. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969. Pp. xviii, 557. $12.50. (1970) (0)
Goals of Medicine in the Course of History and Today: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Medicine (review) (2007) (0)
Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry by S. D. Lamb (review) (2015) (0)
BHR volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1974) (0)
The Federal Machine: Beginnings of Bureaucracy in Jacksonian America. By Matthew A. Crenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 186. $10.00 (1975) (0)
Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life or Disturbances of the Soul and Their Treatment. Johann Christian Heinroth , J. Schmorak (1977) (0)
Book Review:Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History Sheila M. Rothman (1994) (0)
From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. By Edward Shorter (New York: The Free Press, 1991. xii plus 419 pp. $24.95) (1992) (0)
Psychiatric research in America : two studies, 1936-1941 (1980) (0)
Samuel Gompers: A Biography. By Bernard Mandel. (Yellow Springs: Antioch Press, 1963. xxiv +566 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $8.00.) (1964) (0)
Public policy and the problem of addiction : four studies, 1914-1924 (1981) (0)
Health Affairs Psychiatry ' s Complex History (2015) (0)
BHR volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1975) (0)
Madness: A Brief History (review) (2003) (0)
Foundations (1629-1865) (1963) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. From Advocacy to Policy (1991) (0)
Deborah Hayden. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York: Basic Books, 2003. xx + 379 pp. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐465‐02881‐0. (2003) (0)
From Progressivism to the Cold War (1972) (0)
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (review) (1998) (0)
Chapter 6. Integration, Parity, and Transformation (2020) (0)
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America (2006) (0)
From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression by Clark Lawlor (review) (2013) (0)
Books Received (1987) (0)
The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. By Charles E. Rosenberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. xvii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $5.95.) (1969) (0)
The Molly Maguires. By Wayne G. Broebl Jr, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. vi + 409. $8.95 (1965) (0)
An inside view of mental health (2003) (0)
Chapter 3. A Presidential Initiative (2020) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Reorganization of Psychiatry (1991) (0)
The Paradox of Deinstitutionalizafion (2007) (0)
The Death of the Asylum: A Critical Study of State Hospital Management, Services, and Care (2004) (0)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis Paul RoazenThe Historiography of Psychoanalysis Paul Roazen New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2001, xiii + 480 p., US $49.95. (2002) (0)
Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America (review) (2004) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Mental Hospitals under Siege (1991) (0)
Biological & environmental imperatives (1976) (0)
The Discovery of the Aged@@@Shades of Gray: Old Age, American Values, and Federal Policies since 1920. (1983) (0)
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (review) (2009) (0)
From Puritanism to the first party system (1972) (0)
Essay Review: Who should write the history of psychiatry? (2008) (0)
Mental Health (2020) (0)
Chapter 4. From Advocacy to Legislation (2020) (0)
Book Review:Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society, 1820-1930 Terry M. Parssinen (1984) (0)
Psychology, Medicine, and American Culture. (1989) (0)
In Memoriam: Sherwin B. Nuland (1930–2014) (2014) (0)
Making a case for life (2003) (0)
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (2017) (0)
From Jacksonian democracy to the gilded age (1972) (0)
Reform or cooptation: the creation of the modern American medical school. (1987) (0)
Chapter 2. Policy Fragmentation (2020) (0)
The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900. By Andrew Scull (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. xviii plus 441pp.) (1994) (0)
BHR volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1972) (0)
The Madness of Mary Lincoln. By Jason Emerson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2771-3.) (2008) (0)
Chapter 1. Winds of Change (2020) (0)
Dilemmas of maturity (1865-1962) (1963) (0)
Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist (review) (1998) (0)
Coronary heart disease and cancer in twentieth-century America. An etiological dilemma. (2002) (0)
A Moral/Ethical History of American Psychiatry (2015) (0)
Madness to Mental Illness: A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (review) (2012) (0)
The Epidemiology of drug addiction : three studies, 1924-1926 (1980) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: The Historiography of Psychoanalysis by Paul Roazen (2002) (0)
Mark S. Micale;, Paul Lerner (Editors).Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870–1930. xiv + 316 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. (2002) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Origins of Federal Intervention (1991) (0)
Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement: Men and Women. Men and Movements. (1970) (0)
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914 (review) (2009) (0)
Special issue: The Menninger School of Psychiatry. (1990) (0)
Richard W. Fox, So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in California 1870-1930. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978, XVI, 204 pp., U.S. $10.-. (1982) (0)
The mentally ill in urban America : four studies, 1914-1922 (1980) (0)
Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901 (review) (2003) (0)
Book Review:The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen of the Nineteenth Century. Paul H. Mattingly (1977) (0)
Books in review (1954) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. From Institution to Community (1991) (0)
A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (review) (2000) (0)
The White plague. (1990) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Challenges to Psychiatric Legitimacy (1991) (0)
Origins of the Political Philosophy of the A. F. of L., 1886–1896 (1960) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Care and Treatment: Changing Views (1991) (0)
Psychiatry’s Complex History (2015) (0)
PREFACE (2019) (0)
Kenneth F. Kiple (Editor).The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease. xiii + 412 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $75 (cloth); $27 (paper). (2004) (0)
Book Review: R. Gregory Lande. Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2003. Pp. xii + 231. $27.95. ISBN 1-57488-352-6 (2007) (0)
Book Note: The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth Century England (1997) (0)
A History of Women's Bodies. By Edward Shorter (New York: Basic Books, 1982. xiv plus 398 pp. $24.95) (1984) (0)
The Legacy of Silas Weir Mitchell/Reply (2004) (0)
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning (review) (2004) (0)
Book Review Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine By Roy Porter. 199 pp., illustrated. New York, Norton, 2003. $21.95. 0-393-03762-2 (2003) (0)
Abbreviations Used in Text (1991) (0)
BHR volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1973) (0)
The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy (2020) (0)
Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. A Twentieth–Century Fund Report. By Edward D. Berkowitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. Notes and index. $24.95 (1988) (0)
Chapter 10. Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America (2020) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
Chapter 5. From Legislative Repeal to Sequential Reform (2020) (0)
Mark Jackson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (2012) (0)
Medicine in Maryland: The Practice and the Profession, 1799–1999. By Jane Eliot Sewell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xx, 238 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6127-6.) (2001) (0)
John E. Lesch. The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 364. $59.50 (2007) (0)
Knowing Members of the Advisory Board Gerald N. Grob (1995) (0)
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis (review) (1997) (0)
Chapter 3 Mental health policy in modern America (2011) (0)

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