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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
10. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.