Moran / Wright Mental Health and Canadian Society

Historical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7735-7654-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 288 Seiten

Reihe: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experimentation, and social control into public perceptions of the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moran, James E.

Wright, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Wright David:

David Wright is professor of history and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at McGill University.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