Committed to the state asylum [[electronic resource] ] : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / / James E. Moran
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Moran James E
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| Titolo: |
Committed to the state asylum [[electronic resource] ] : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / / James E. Moran
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 226 p. ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina: | 362.2/1/0971309034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Psychiatric hospitals - Ontario - History - 19th century |
| Psychiatric hospitals - Québec (Province) - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Committed to the state asylum |
| ISBN: | 1-282-85898-X |
| 9786612858987 | |
| 0-7735-6883-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452501603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 10.