Founding Friends: Families, Staff, And Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-century Philadelphia

by D?Antonio, Patricia

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781611460353
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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