Founding Friends
Subtitle: families, staff, and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia
By: Patricia D'Antonio.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Friends' Asylum for the Insane -- History.; Friends' Asylum for the Insane -- Pennsylvania.; 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 -- Pennsylvania.; Mentally Ill Persons -- history -- Pennsylvania.; Patient Care -- history -- Pennsylvania.; History, 19th Century -- Pennsylvania.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Founding friends; title: A virtual domestic space; title: The family and the Asylum; title: The Asylum as family; title: Staff needs and patient care; title: The ascendancy of the medical metaphor; title: Appendix A: data on the founders of the Friends of Asylum; title: Appendix B: characteristics of the patient population of the Friends Asylum; title: Appendix C: seclusion and restraint at the Friends Asylum, 1817-32; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.