Founding Friends : families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Patricia D'Antonio
- Author
- D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-
- Published
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2006]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006
- Physical Description
- 253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- Friends' Asylum for the Insane—History
- Friends' Asylum for the Insane
- Psychiatric hospitals—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Psychiatric hospital care—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Psychiatric hospitals—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Sociological aspects
- Quakers—Hospitals—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Hospitals, Psychiatric—history
- History, 19th Century
- Mentally Ill Persons—history
- Patient Care—history
- Pennsylvania
- ISBN
- 0934223823 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
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