The Art of Asylum-Keeping : Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry / Nancy Tomes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomes, Nancy, Author.

Series:

Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883.

Kirkbride, Thomas Story.

Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.) : 19 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-5128-0838-5

OCLC:

979882560