The Art of Asylum-Keeping

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.

Author: Nancy Tomes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Published: 04/29/1994
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780812215397

About the Author
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.