
<p><i>The Art of Asylum-Keeping</i> 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.</p>
Page Count:
424
Publication Date:
1994-04-29
ISBN-10:
1512823996
ISBN-13:
9781512823998
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