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Mental Health and Canadian Society

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In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with me...
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  • 01 August 2010
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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.
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Publication Date: 01 August 2010
ISBN: 9780773576544
Format: eBook
BISACs: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
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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