"Open to the public": Touring Ontario asylums in the nineteenth century / Janet Miron -- "For years we have never had a happy home": Madness and families in nineteenth-century Montreal / Thierry Nootens -- Patients at work:Insane asylum inmates' labour in Ontario, 1841-1900 / Geoffrey Reaume -- The uses of asylums: Resistance, asylum propaganda, and institutionalization strategies in turn-of-the-century Quebec / Andre Cellard and Marie-Claude Thifault -- "Loaded revolvers": Ontario's first forensic psychiatrist / Allison-Kirk Montgomery -- Turbulent spirits: Aboriginal patients in the British Columbia psychiatric system, 1879-1950 / Robert Menzies and Ted Palys -- "Prescription for survival": Brock Chisholm, sterilization, and mental health in the cold war era / Ian Dowbiggin -- Social disintegration, problem pregnancies, civilian disasters: Psychiatric research in Nova Scotia in the 1950's / Judith Fingard and John Rutherford -- Prairie psychedelics: Mental health research in Saskatchewn, 1951-1967 / Erika Dyck. |