Bøker av Nancy Tomes

The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.

Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. Tomes reminds us this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, this book returns to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness.