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

The Art of Asylum - Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving) image
ISBN-10:

0812215397

ISBN-13:

9780812215397

Author(s): Tomes, Nancy
Edition: Reprint 2016 ed.
Released: May 18, 1994
Format: Hardcover, 424 pages
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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.

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