Title Committed to the state asylum : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / James E. Moran

Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 10. Contents Manipulating a monopoly: The state and the "farming-out system' in Quebec -- Insanity, community, and commissioner: The state and the government system in Ontario -- Medicine, moral therapy, and madness in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario -- Wanderer, pauper, and prisoner: The social, economic, and political contexts of committal -- Criminal insanity: The creation and dissolution of a psychiatric disorder -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the asylum, the state, and the management of insanity Summary "Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions in both provinces - James Moran argues that asylum development was the result of complex relationships among a wide array of people, including state inspectors and administrators, asylum doctors, local magistrates, jail surgeons, religious authorities, and the relatives and neighbours of those who were considered to be insane." "Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province. Moran considers Canada's pioneering institutional efforts at dealing with the criminally insane and why those efforts lasted only a short time, shedding new light on the debate about the nature and extent of state involvement in nineteenth-century Canadian society." "Committed to the State Asylum offers new insights into the ways in which both ordinary families and the state understood and responded to those they thought had crossed the boundaries of sane behaviour."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century Psychiatric hospitals -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history Community Mental Health Services -- history History, 19th Century Hospitals, State -- history MEDICAL -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. Mentally ill -- Institutional care Psychiatric hospitals Hôpital psychiatrique. Histoire. Malade mental. Soins en institution. 19e siècle. SUBJECT Ontario Quebec Subject Ontario Québec Ontario (Province) Québec (Province) Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies History Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002421718 ISBN 9780773568839 0773568832 9786612858987 6612858982

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