The Art of Asylum-Keeping

By Nancy Tomes

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215397
• ISBN13: 9780812215397
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary