Insanity, identity and empire : immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 / Catharine Coleborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleborne, Catharine, author.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with mental disabilities--New Zealand--19th century.

People with mental disabilities.

People with mental disabilities--Australia--19th century.

Immigrants--New Zealand--Psychology.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Australia--Psychology.

New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--19th century.

New Zealand.

Australia--Emigration and immigration--19th century.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration.

Contents:

Introduction: Insanity, identity and empire

1: Insanity in the 'age of mobility' : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1880s

2: Immigrants, mental health and social institutions : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1890s

3: Passing through : narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873-1910

4: White men and weak masculinity : men in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s

5: Insanity and white femininity : women in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s

6: The 'others' : inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-217) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784996710

OCLC:

980849812