The Art of Asylum-Keeping : : Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry / / Nancy Tomes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Tomes, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.) :; 19 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of tables and figures --; Introduction to the paperback edition --; Preface --; Introduction: The historian and the asylum --; 1. From hospital to asylum --; 2. Christian and physician --; 3. The burden of being their keepers --; 4. The persuasive institution --; 5. A new kind of existence --; 6. The perils of asylum practice --; Conclusion: A generous sympathy --; Appendixes --; Notes --; Manuscript sources --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512808384; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512808384
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.