The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

by 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.

Genres: Psychology, History, Mental Health, Science

424 pages, Hardcover

First published May 18, 1994

Reviews

[Shala Howell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of great info, but the presentation of that info gets a little dull in the last chapter.