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

Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2006], ©2006.

253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

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.