Committed to the state asylum : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / James E. Moran.
| Author/creator |
Moran, James E. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | x, 226 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Interpreting Sophie's World i -- 1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the -- "Farming-Out System" in Quebec 13 -- 2 Insanity, Community, and Commissioner: -- The State and the Government System in Ontario 48 -- 3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in -- Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario 77 -- 4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social, -- Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal 113 -- 5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution -- of a Psychiatric Disorder 141 -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State, -- and the Management of Insanity 167. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002421718 |
| ISBN | 0773521224 (alk. paper) |
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