Founding Friends: Femilies, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
(Part of the Studies in the Eighteenth Century and the Atlantic World Series)
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Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. It uses an extraordinarily rich data source: the daily diaries that the Asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850. In their diaries, these men wrote about their own and their attendant staff's work. They also write about their patients: their conditions, the moral remedies applied, the medical prescriptions ordered by consulting physicians, the reasons for chosen treatments, and the responses of patients and staff to the particular interventions.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0934223823
ISBN13:9780934223829
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Lehigh University Press
Length:253 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
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