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The Art of Asylum-Keeping

The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Hardback Published on: 29/04/1994
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • ISBN: 9780812215397
  • Number of pages: 387
  • Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
  • Weight: 550g
  • Languages: English