Asylum Ways of Seeing : Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, H...

Description: Asylum Ways of Seeing : Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, Hardcover by Murray, Heather, ISBN 0812253574, ISBN-13 9780812253573, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Asylum Ways of Seeing is a social history of psychiatric patient cultures in the twentieth-century United States. Heather Murray's angle is less institutional than cultural and intellectual. Rather than focusing, like so many books in the history of medicine, on the rise of the institution and its changing treatments over time, Murray attempts something much more challenging, especially in this age of patient confidentiality: she seeks to understand the changing attitudes of patients and their families toward mental illness and the care they received"--

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Book Title: Asylum Ways of Seeing : Psychiatric Patients, American Thought an

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Asylum Ways of Seeing : Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2022

Subject: United States / 20th Century, Internal Medicine, History

Item Weight: 23.5 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Psychology, History, Medical

Author: Heather Murray

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover