Moran, James E.

Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / [electronic resource] : James E. Moran. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000. - x, 226 p. ; 24 cm. - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10 . - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10. .

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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Psychiatric hospitals--History--Ontario--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Quebec (Province)--19th century.


Electronic books.

RC447 / .M67 2000eb

362.2/1/0971309034