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Title Mental health and Canadian society : historical perspectives / edited by James E. Moran and David Wright.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2006]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages : illustrations).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.
Contents "Open to the public": Touring Ontario asylums in the nineteenth century / Janet Miron -- "For years we have never had a happy home": Madness and families in nineteenth-century Montreal / Thierry Nootens -- Patients at work:Insane asylum inmates' labour in Ontario, 1841-1900 / Geoffrey Reaume -- The uses of asylums: Resistance, asylum propaganda, and institutionalization strategies in turn-of-the-century Quebec / Andre Cellard and Marie-Claude Thifault -- "Loaded revolvers": Ontario's first forensic psychiatrist / Allison-Kirk Montgomery -- Turbulent spirits: Aboriginal patients in the British Columbia psychiatric system, 1879-1950 / Robert Menzies and Ted Palys -- "Prescription for survival": Brock Chisholm, sterilization, and mental health in the cold war era / Ian Dowbiggin -- Social disintegration, problem pregnancies, civilian disasters: Psychiatric research in Nova Scotia in the 1950s / Judith Fingard and John Rutherford -- Prairie psychedelics: Mental health research in Saskatchewn, 1951-1967 / Erika Dyck.
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Subject Mental illness -- Canada -- History.
Mental illness.
Canada.
History.
Psychiatry -- Canada -- History.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Canada -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Wright, David, 1965-
Moran, James E.
Other Form: Print version: 0773531319 9780773531314
ISBN 9780773576544 (electronic book)
0773576541 (electronic book)
0773531319
9780773531314
9780773531390
0773531394