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The Art of Asylum-Keeping

Name: The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
SKU: 9781512808377
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESSISBN: 9781512808377

Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

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By Nancy Tomes
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 424

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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.

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.

"Exceptional... Easily the best history of a mental hospital in Europe or America."-Reviews in American History

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