Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
Art of Asylum-Keeping
Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
Av Nancy Tomes
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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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- Utgivningsdatum: 2016-10-31
- Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Anniversary Collection
- Antal sidor: 424
- Förlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- ISBN: 9781512808377
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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.
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"Exceptional... Easily the best history of a mental hospital in Europe or America."-Reviews in American History
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