Mental health and Canadian society : historical perspectives / edited by James E. Moran and David Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, David, 1965-

Moran, James E.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Canada--History.

Mental illness.

Psychiatry--Canada--History.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatric hospitals--Canada--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

"Open to the public": Touring Ontario asylums in the nineteenth century / Janet Miron

"For years we have never had a happy home": Madness and families in nineteenth-century Montreal / Thierry Nootens

Patients at work:Insane asylum inmates' labour in Ontario, 1841-1900 / Geoffrey Reaume

The uses of asylums: Resistance, asylum propaganda, and institutionalization strategies in turn-of-the-century Quebec / Andre Cellard and Marie-Claude Thifault

"Loaded revolvers": Ontario's first forensic psychiatrist / Allison-Kirk Montgomery

Turbulent spirits: Aboriginal patients in the British Columbia psychiatric system, 1879-1950 / Robert Menzies and Ted Palys

"Prescription for survival": Brock Chisholm, sterilization, and mental health in the cold war era / Ian Dowbiggin

Social disintegration, problem pregnancies, civilian disasters: Psychiatric research in Nova Scotia in the 1950's / Judith Fingard and John Rutherford

Prairie psychedelics: Mental health research in Saskatchewan, 1951-1967 / Erika Dyck.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86698-2

9786612866982

0-7735-7654-1

OCLC:

923234429