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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.20971/09
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - Canada - History; Psychiatry - Canada - History; Psychiatric hospitals - Canada - History
• 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 Saskatchewan, 1951-1967 / Erika Dyck.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD.
• 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.: 9910823707903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 26.