Founding Friends : families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia

Founding Friends families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press cop. 2006
Subjects:
Friends' Asylum for the Insane > Historia
Hospitales psiquiátricos > Pennsylvania.
Enfermos mentales > Asistencia > Pennsylvania.
Pensilvania > Historia > s. XIX.
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000298879708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of 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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