Dorothea Dix
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Dorothea Dix

1. created the first generation of American mental asylums
2. She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that challenged the idea that people with mental disturbances could not be cured or helped.
2. Dix helped recruit nurses for the Union army during the Civil War.

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