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The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
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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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ISBN-13: 9781512804591
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: May, 2017
Pages: 424
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues

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