Founding Friends : families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia /
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| Author / Creator: | D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2006. |
| Description: | 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5890938 |
| Summary: | Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. It uses an extraordinarily rich data source: the daily diaries that the Asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850. In their diaries, these men wrote about their own and their attendant staff's work. They also write about their patients: their conditions, the moral remedies applied, the medical prescriptions ordered by consulting physicians, the reasons for chosen treatments, and the responses of patients and staff to the particular interventions. |
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| Physical Description: | 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0934223823 (alk. paper) |
