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Attending madness : at work in the Australian colonial asylum /
'He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible'. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870s. This...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
84. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 'He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible'. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870s. This book is a history of William Coady's occupation, a history asylum work and workers in nineteenth-century Australia. It considers not only who attendants were and why they worked in the asylum, but also how they and others variously defined 'the very good attendant'. Colonial asylum advocates imagined the atten. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435677678 1435677676 9789401206013 9401206015 |
| ISSN: | 0045-7183 ; |