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Remembrance of Patients Past : Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940 / Geoffrey Reaume.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reaume, Geoffrey, Author.
- Series:
- Canadian social history series.
- Canadian Social History Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toronto Hospital for the Insane--History.
- Toronto Hospital for the Insane.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care--Ontario--Toronto--History.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Mental Disorders--history.
- Ontario.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Mental Disorders--history.
- Ontario.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum's walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff. Using first person accounts by and about patients – including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff – Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: The Physical and Medical Setting
- 2 Diagnosis and Admission
- 3 Daily Routine and Daily Relationships
- 4 Patients’ Leisure and Personal Space
- 5 Patients’ Labour
- 6 Family and Community Responses to Mental Hospital Patients
- 7 Discharge and Death
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-5916-5
- 1-4426-2806-5
- OCLC:
- 1163877922
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