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Kirkbride, Thomas Story

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Kirkbride, Thomas Story (1809–1883)

US physician. He worked for the Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1832, before joining Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital to supervise treatment of the mentally ill in 1833. Heading the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane from 1840, his care and leadership mounted a ‘renaissance in psychiatry’; he insisted that insanity was illness and sufferers should be treated with respect and care. Kirkbride was born into a Quaker farming family near Trenton, Pennsylvania.



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