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

  • D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-
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[2006], ©2006
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Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2006], ©2006.

Physical description

253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

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.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.RX.628
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  • 0934223823