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Founding Friends : families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Patricia D'Antonio.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friends' Asylum for the Insane--History.
- Friends' Asylum for the Insane.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychiatric hospital care--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Psychiatric hospital care.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Sociological aspects.
- Quakers--Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Quakers.
- Hospitals.
- History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders--history.
- Patient Care--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Pennsylvania.
- History, 19th Century.
- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders--history.
- Patient Care--history.
- Penn Provenance:
- Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Founding friends
- A virtual domestic space
- The family and the Asylum
- The Asylum as family
- Staff needs and patient care
- The ascendancy of the medical metaphor
- Appendix A: data on the founders of the Friends of Asylum
- Appendix B: characteristics of the patient population of the Friends Asylum
- Appendix C: seclusion and restraint at the Friends Asylum, 1817-32
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0934223823
- 9780934223829
- OCLC:
- 60551593
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