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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.
Price: $79.95
Pages: 424
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date:
31 October 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781512808377
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MEDICAL / History, History of medicine
"Exceptional. . . . Easily the best history of a mental hospital in Europe or America."—Reviews in American History
Nancy Tomes is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.