GROB, Gerald N.

GROB, Gerald N. American, b. 1931. Genres: History, Psychiatry. Career: Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1990- (Professor of History, 1969-90). Instructor to Professor of History, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1957-69. Publications: Workers and Utopia: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the American Labor Movement 1865-1900, 1961; The State and the Mentally Ill, 1966 (compiler) American Social History Before 1860, 1970; Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875, 1973; Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America, 1978; Mental Illness and American Society 1875-1940, 1983; The Inner World of American Psychiatry 1890- 1940, 1985; From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America, 1991; The Mad among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill, 1994; The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America, 2002. EDITOR: (with R.N. Beck) American Ideas, 2 vols., 1963, 1970; (with G.A. Billias) Interpretations of American History; Patterns and Perspectives, 2 vols., 1967, 6th ed., 1992; Statesmen and Statecraft of the Modern West, 1967; (with G.A. Billias) American History: Retrospect and Prospect, 1971; E. Jarvis, Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts: Report of the Commission on Lunacy, 1855, 1971. Address: Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1293, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]