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Cult of "curability" increases.
Date: 1830s
Mental health & psych
Epidemics & disease
Medical system (Western medicine)
The 1830s see a cultural shift from understanding mental health disabilities as "lunacy" (a "moral disease") towards being a curable disease (meaning the "problem" can be diagnosed and cured).
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