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Committed to the state asylum

by Moran, James E.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; . 10 Published by : McGill-Queen's University Press, (Montreal ; | Ithaca :) Physical details: x, 226 p.
Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century. | Psychiatric hospitals -- Qu�ebec (Province) -- History -- 19th century. | Electronic books.
Year: 2000
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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