Moments of unreason : the practice of Canadian psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923 /

Moments of Unreason is the first detailed study of a private asylum in North America: the Homewood Retreat in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1883 as an early Canadian venture into corporate health care. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh studies the careers of its first two medical superintendents, Stephen Lett...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1989.
Temas:
Homewood Retreat > History.
Homewood Retreat
Homewood Retreat > Histoire.
1800-1899
Psychiatric hospitals > Ontario > Guelph > History.
Psychiatry > Canada > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Ontario > Guelph > History > 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Psychiatry > history
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Ontario > Guelph > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Psychiatrie > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
Psychiatrie.
Ontario
Canada
Ontario > Guelph
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Moments of Unreason is the first detailed study of a private asylum in North America: the Homewood Retreat in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1883 as an early Canadian venture into corporate health care. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh studies the careers of its first two medical superintendents, Stephen Lett and Alfred Hobbs, which spanned the evolution of mental health theory from moral management to mental therapeutics and, later, neuro-psychiatry. This evolution did not make practical management of the Institute less complex: an under-paid, undertrained work force combined with an unruly patient population resulted in instances of neglect, abuse, and over-medication.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773562035
0773562036

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