Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario /

Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario /

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Main Author: Moran, James E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000.
Series:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospitals > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Québec (Province) > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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