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Psychology Mental Health

Mental Health and Canadian Society

Historical Perspectives

by (author) James E. Moran & David Wright

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2006
Category
Mental Health
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773531314
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773576544
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

About the authors

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

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