The Art of Asylum-Keeping by Nancy Tomes

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nonfiction health history psychology medium-paced
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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 sc...

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