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The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Anniversary Collection) by Nancy Tomes

The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Anniversary Collection)

Nancy Tomes
424 pages
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Apr 1994
Hardcover
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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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