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Mental health and Canadian society : historical perspectives /
"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 experim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.