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

• Autore: Moran James E
• 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
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province. He considers Canada?s pioneering institutional efforts at dealing with the criminally insane and why those efforts lasted only a short time, shedding new light on the debate about the nature and extent of state involvement in nineteenth-century Canadian society. Committed to the State Asylum offers new insights into the ways in which both ordinary families and the state understood and responded to those they thought had crossed the boundaries of sane behaviour.
• 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.: 9910782071103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 10.