The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Published:31st Oct '16
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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.
"Exceptional. . . . Easily the best history of a mental hospital in Europe or America."—Reviews in American History
ISBN: 9781512808377
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424 pages