Insanity, identity and empire : Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 /

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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleborne, Catharine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care.
Immigrants > Psychology.
Emigration and immigration.
MEDICAL > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care > New Zealand > History > 19th century.
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care > Australia > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > New Zealand > Psychology.
Immigrants > Australia > Psychology.
New Zealand.
Australia.
Australie > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
New Zealand > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Australia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Insanity in the 'age of mobility' : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1880s
  • Immigrants, mental health and social institutions : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1890s
  • Passing through : narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873-1910
  • White men and weak masculinity : men in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s
  • Insanity and white femininity : women in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s
  • The 'others' : inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings.

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