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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459684803321

Titolo

Mental health and Canadian society [[electronic resource] ] : historical perspectives / / edited by James E. Moran and David Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-86698-2

9786612866982

0-7735-7654-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

WrightDavid <1965->

MoranJames E

Disciplina

362.20971/09

Soggetti

Mental illness - Canada - History

Psychiatry - Canada - History

Psychiatric hospitals - Canada - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.