Founding Friends : families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Patricia D'Antonio.

Author
D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, ©2006.
Description
253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    • Founding friends
    • A virtual domestic space
    • The family and the Asylum
    • The Asylum as family
    • Staff needs and patient care
    • The ascendancy of the medical metaphor
    • Appendix A: data on the founders of the Friends of Asylum
    • Appendix B: characteristics of the patient population of the Friends Asylum
    • Appendix C: seclusion and restraint at the Friends Asylum, 1817-32
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 0934223823 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780934223829 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2005015310
    OCLC
    60551593
    International Article Number
    • 9780934223829
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