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The Art of Asylum-Keeping : Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Introduction to the paperback edition
- Preface
- Introduction: The historian and the asylum
- 1. From hospital to asylum
- 2. Christian and physician
- 3. The burden of being their keepers
- 4. The persuasive institution
- 5. A new kind of existence
- 6. The perils of asylum practice
- Conclusion: A generous sympathy
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Manuscript sources
- Index
- Backmatter