James E. Moran, David Wright

Mental Health and Canadian Society (eBook, PDF)

Historical Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780773576544
• Artikelnr.: 37853870

Autorenporträt

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

Rezensionen

"An illustration of the more nuanced, path-breaking, and often contentious scholarship in mental health history. This volume will immediately become a leading work in the field and stimulus for further scholarship." Peter McCandles, College of Charleston "Moran and Wright have managed to capture, in a single volume, the wide range of approaches to the history of madness now being employed by Canadian scholars." Ellen Dwyer, Indiana University