Dorothea+Dix


 * famous, white, middle-class woman
 * Goal: social reform
 * Wanted rehabilitation for the mentally ill and imprisoned
 * Conditions for mentally ill and imprisoned were absolutely inhumane
 * Mentally ill used to be housed with prisoners
 * Dix persuaded 9 southern states to set up hospitals for the mentally ill
 * believed that treatment might reform the sick or imprisoned to make them useful in society