The art of asylum-keeping
Subtitle: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of American psychiatry
By: Nancy Tomes.
Series: Studies in health, illness, and caregiving
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883.; Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.; Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-378) and index.
Originally published: A generous confidence. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.