The Improvement in Conditions of Mental Hospitals in the 1800s

question 9

Multiple Choice

The improvement in conditions of mental hospitals in the 1800s was based in part on the belief that

• A) humanistic care would help to relieve mental illness.
• B) patients, though incurable, deserved compassionate care.
• C) patients with mental disorders were not really dangerous.
• D) patients had the right to sue to gain better treatment.

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