Mental Health and Canadian Society
Historical Perspectives
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- Mental Health
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773531314
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $37.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773576544
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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
