Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving: The Art of Asylum-Keeping (Hardcover)
Author Nancy Tomes
University of Pennsylvania Press
9780812215397
0-8122-1539-7
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.
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and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.
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