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

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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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Country
United States
Date
31 October 2016
Pages
424
ISBN
9781512808377

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.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Country
United States
Date
31 October 2016
Pages
424
ISBN
9781512808377