Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario: Volume 10 (McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society) - Softcover

Moran, James E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773521895 ISBN 13: 9780773521896

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

James Moran is professor, history, University of Prince Edward Island, and the author of Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec. David Wright is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Mc

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773521895
• ISBN 13: 9780773521896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216