Committed to the state asylum
Moran, James E.
Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / [electronic resource] : James E. Moran. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000. - x, 226 p. - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10 . - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
C00-901018-1
DNLM
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Ontario--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Qu�ebec (Province)--19th century.
Electronic books.
RC447 / .M67 2000
362.2/1/0971309034
Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / [electronic resource] : James E. Moran. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000. - x, 226 p. - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10 . - McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
C00-901018-1
DNLM
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Ontario--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Qu�ebec (Province)--19th century.
Electronic books.
RC447 / .M67 2000
362.2/1/0971309034