The Boston schoolteacher who made humane care a public and political concern in nineteenth-century America was:

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Dorothea Dix was the Boston schoolteacher who advocated for humane care of the mentally ill and made it a public and political concern in nineteenth-century America. She conducted investigations of care in institutions and wrote reports that led to the creation of new institutions and the improvement of existing ones.

The Boston Schoolteacher Who Made Humane Care a Public and Political