Committed to the state asylum [[electronic resource] ] : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / / James E. Moran

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452501603321
• Autore: Moran James E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
• ISBN: 1-282-85898-X; 9786612858987; 0-7735-6883-2
• Descrizione fisica: x, 226 p. ; ; 24 cm
• Collana: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 10
• Disciplina: 362.2/1/0971309034
• Soggetti: Psychiatric hospitals - Ontario - History - 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals - Québec (Province) - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.