Art of Asylum-Keeping

Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

AvNancy Tomes

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-04-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:782 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anniversary Collection
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:9780812215397

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Psykiatri inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Nancy Tomes is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.