Mental Health and Canadian Society
Historical Perspectives
David Wright author James E Moran author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:14th Aug '06
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Challenges generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period since colonialism, this work examines such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, and the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals.An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.
"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
ISBN: 9780773531314
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 492g
288 pages