The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
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/EAN | 9780812215397 |
| Auteur | Nancy Tomes |
| Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 424 |
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