Founding friends : families, staff and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Patricia d'Antonio.
Pubblicazione:
Bethlehem : Lehigh university press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 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. 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
ISBN:
0934223823
Discipline:
Malattie del sistema nervoso--Ospedali e assistenza sociale e sanitaria.
