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

"Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moran, James E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Manipulating a monopoly: The state and the "farming-out system' in Quebec
  • Insanity, community, and commissioner: The state and the government system in Ontario
  • Medicine, moral therapy, and madness in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario
  • Wanderer, pauper, and prisoner: The social, economic, and political contexts of committal
  • Criminal insanity: The creation and dissolution of a psychiatric disorder
  • Conclusion: Re-evaluating the asylum, the state, and the management of insanity.