Inside Oregon State Hospital

Author: Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1626190402
Category: Medical

Inside Oregon State Hospital: A History of Tragedy and Triumph

Seen through the eyes of the patients who lived there, Inside Oregon State Hospital examines the world of the Northwest's oldest mental hospital established in 1883. Download Inside Oregon State Hospital medical books for free.
In desperate attempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadly medications, cut holes in their heads and sterilized them. Years of insufficient funding caused the hospital to decay into a crumbling facility with too few staff as seen in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Today, after a $320 million makeover, Oregon State Hospital is a modern treatment hospital for the state's civil and forensic mentally ill. In this compelling account of the institution's tragedies and triumphs, author Diane Goeres-Gardner offers an unparalleled look Get Inside Oregon State Hospital our bestseller medical books.

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