The Art of Asylum - Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)

Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press

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$47.48 - $65.03
UPC:
9780812215397
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
5/18/1994
Author:
Nancy Tomes
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.