The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry - Anniversary Collection - Nancy Tomes - Books - University of Pennsylvania Press - 9780812215397 - April 29, 1994
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The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry - Anniversary Collection

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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.

424 pages, 19 illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 29, 1994
ISBN13 9780812215397
Publishers University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 424
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   571 g

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