The Art Of Asylum-Keeping

Thomas Story Kirkbride And The Origins Of American Psychiatry

by Nancy Tomes
language: english
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, April of 1994 ‧
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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.

The Art Of Asylum-Keeping

Thomas Story Kirkbride And The Origins Of American Psychiatry

by Nancy Tomes

Property Description
ISBN: 9780812215397
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Release Date: April of 1994
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Format: Book
Collection: Studies In Health, Illness, And Caregiving
Categories: Books in English > Medicine > Psychiatry
EAN: 9780812215397

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