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

by Patricia D'Antonio

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934223823
• ISBN13: 9780934223829
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.