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1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations, map |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26 |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26.
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| Contents |
"Open to the public": Touring Ontario asylums in the nineteenth century / Janet Miron -- "For years we have never had a happy home": Madness and families in nineteenth-century Montreal / Thierry Nootens -- Patients at work: Insane asylum inmates' labour in Ontario, 1841-1900 / Geoffrey Reaume -- The uses of asylums: Resistance, asylum propaganda, and institutionalization strategies in turn-of-the-century Quebec / Andre Cellard and Marie-Claude Thifault -- "Loaded revolvers": Ontario's first forensic psychiatrist / Allison-Kirk Montgomery -- Turbulent spirits: Aboriginal patients in the British Columbia psychiatric system, 1879-1950 / Robert Menzies and Ted Palys -- "Prescription for survival": Brock Chisholm, sterilization, and mental health in the cold war era / Ian Dowbiggin -- Social disintegration, problem pregnancies, civilian disasters: Psychiatric research in Nova Scotia in the 1950s / Judith Fingard and John Rutherford -- Prairie psychedelics: Mental health research in Saskatchewn, 1951-1967 / Erika Dyck |
| Summary |
"In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experimentation, and social control into public perceptions of the field. In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD. Their original conclusions challenge us to rethink present mental health policies, which continue to be influenced by an imagined history of the lunatic asylum."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index |
| Notes |
James Moran is professor, history, University of Prince Edward Island, and the author of Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec. David Wright is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, McMaster University, and the co-editor of The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965 |
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Print version record |
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Mental illness -- Canada -- History
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Psychiatry -- Canada -- History
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Psychiatric hospitals -- Canada -- History
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Mental Disorders -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
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Psychiatry -- history
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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Mental illness
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Psychiatric hospitals
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Psychiatry
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Canada |
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, David, 1965- editor.
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Moran, James E., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773576544 |
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0773576541 |
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1282866982 |
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9781282866980 |
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9786612866982 |
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6612866985 |
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