Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario (Mcgill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society) Pdf

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Release: 2001-12
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0773521895
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions in both provinces - James Moran argues that asylum development was the result of complex relationships among a wide array of people, including state inspectors and administrators, asylum doctors, local magistrates, jail surgeons, religious authorities, and the relatives and neighbours of those who were considered to be insane. 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. Moran considers Canada's pioneering institutional efforts at dealing with the criminally insane and why those efforts lasted only a Download Committed to the State Asylum for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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