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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Nearby are the central campus of North Carolina State University, the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, Dorothea Dix Hospital for the mentally ill, and the North Carolina State Prison.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Psychiatric News: Dorothea Lynde Dix, A Woman Ahead of Her Time Article by Janet Eddy Ordway about Dix's efforts on behalf of the mentally ill.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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DIX , Dorothea Lynde [1802-1887] - American philanthropist and reformer;
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Dix, Dorothea Lynde Biography and portrait from EB's feature on women in American history.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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When Dorothea Dix traveled to the US and European prisons and found the mentally ill interned in deplorable conditions, it was her compassion and outrage that moved her to advocate for change.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Carter completed a combined psychiatric residency at Duke and Dorothea Dix Hospital.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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But the optimism that fired Dorothea Dix and Thomas Kirkbride has not dimmed in Northampton's former patients.
Lloyd currently works at Dorothea Dix Hospital and in her private practice, which she began in 1985.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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In 1837 American social reformer Dorothea Dix began a 30-year campaign to see that the mentally ill were taken out of the prisons, where many had been incarcerated.
Dorothea Dix, the outspoken advocate and crusader for the mentally ill, pointed to the inadequacy of the bed capacity of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane in her 1852 impassioned address to the Maryland General Assembly.
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities: Dorothea Lynde Dix Biography of the nurse and reformer from the MFH State House Women's Leadership Project.
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