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 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Founding Friends
- 2. A virtual domestic space
- 3. The family and the asylum
- 4. The asylum as family
- 5. Staff needs and patient care
- 6. The ascendancy of the medical metaphor
- App. A. Data on the founders of the Friends Asylum
- App. B. Characteristics of the patient population of the Friends Asylum
- App. C. Seclusion and restraint at the Friends Asylum, 1817-32.
