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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.20971/09
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - Canada - History; Psychiatry - Canada - History; Psychiatric hospitals - Canada - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WrightDavid <1965-> MoranJames E
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental health and Canadian society
• ISBN: 1-282-86698-2; 9786612866982; 0-7735-7654-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459684803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 26.