Committed to the state asylum [electronic resource] : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / James E. Moran.
By: Moran, James E.
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society: 10.Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000Description: x, 226 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatric hospitals -- Quebec (Province) -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.2/1/0971309034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 362.2/1 Working with families of psychiatric inpatients | 362.2/1/094109034 Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 | 362.2/1/094267 Madness in its place | 362.2/1/0971309034 Committed to the state asylum | 362.2/10092 B An insight into an insane asylum | 362.2/109421 Asylum to action | 362.2/10973 Theaters of madness |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Interpreting Sophie's World i -- 1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the -- "Farming-Out System" in Quebec 13 -- 2 Insanity, Community, and Commissioner: -- The State and the Government System in Ontario 48 -- 3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in -- Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario 77 -- 4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social, -- Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal 113 -- 5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution -- of a Psychiatric Disorder 141 -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State, -- and the Management of Insanity 167.
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