Founding Friends - Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source-the daily diaries that the asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850-this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.

About the author

Patricia D'Antonio is associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source-the daily diaries that the asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850-this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.

Product details

• Authors: D?antonio Patricia, Patricia D'Antonio, Patricia Doantonio, Patricia, D?Antonio Patricia
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611460353
• ISBN: 978-1-61146-035-3
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent; Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent; Studies in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works