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 . How did the public respond to the use of government money, taxes, to fund and operate public mental institutions? -- Jayden Jordan
+. Grob notes how "fear and optimism shaped the ways in which American's responded to social problems" however early public hospitals seemed to operate more in the way of financial motivation, had money been less of an issue would those suffering from mental illness truly have been cared for differently?
+. While early colonists believed that mental illness was the work of the devil, they did apply a community commitment to helping it, by the 1820s those who were ill were being kept in prison-like asylums.  Were the colonists, though ignorant and misguided, better and more humane at handling mental ill persons?
+-Janis Shurtleff
+.	Why did Cotton Mather, Grob (9-10), believe that madness was caused by the devil, yet believed in the efficacy of inoculating against smallpox? What was does this say about his opinion of the causes of insanity versus physical ailments?
+.	What does it say about the state of race relations in American society when Dorothea Dix, who felt deep sympathy for the plight of the mentally ill, dared not condemn the issue of slavery? (Grob, 47)
+.	How could state legislatures fail to see that it was a bad idea to establish public mental hospitals that were geographically in the center of the state, but far away from urban centers? (Grob, 51-3)
+-Submitted by Chris O'Neill
+.", we learned that those who were called "distracted" were considered the local town and community's 'responsibility.' Is this kind of solution/treatment good, or should we likely consider it tokenism?
+. At what point is it irresponsible for family members of mentally ill people to insist on caring for them alone?
+. Do we have data on whether the amount of PoC with mental health issues went under or over-reported during this time? Grob's chapters so far have made this unclear.
+-Submitted by Theron Gertz. I pledge...