This paper examines several aspects of the complex relationship between the city and the Victorian lunatic asylum. The first part of the paper demonstrates that the urban-ness of the public mental hospital has been a point of some degree of ambiguity. Mental hospitals were Janus-like—looking forward to the emerging urban world and yet, at the same time, looking back to a romanticized, rustic past. The second part of the paper adopts a quantitative approach and reveals that, far from the receptacle of strictly urban dwellers, the mental hospitals received a remarkable number of mentally ill from rural regions of the province. This ...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
This thesis is a study of the care of the mentally ill in British Columbia from the early days of th...
In this paper QUEBEC shall be utilized as a “case method” example of a province which depicts a line...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
This thesis progresses from a broad, historical review of the development of services for mentally i...
"There seems to prevail in the large majority of cases an almost incredible ignorance of the necessa...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
At a time when the rest of Canada, and indeed much of the Western World, was looking for alternative...
In 1868, an article in the Yorkshire Post about the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum drew attention...
This dissertation examines the history of the mental asylum in comparative context. It presents a cr...
Studies of the Great Depression in Saskatchewan tend to focus on the unsurpassed poverty, unemployme...
During the late 18th and early 19th century the mentally ill who were not considered dangerous or to...
This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study examines the individual experiences of people wh...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
This thesis is a study of the care of the mentally ill in British Columbia from the early days of th...
In this paper QUEBEC shall be utilized as a “case method” example of a province which depicts a line...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
This thesis progresses from a broad, historical review of the development of services for mentally i...
"There seems to prevail in the large majority of cases an almost incredible ignorance of the necessa...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
At a time when the rest of Canada, and indeed much of the Western World, was looking for alternative...
In 1868, an article in the Yorkshire Post about the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum drew attention...
This dissertation examines the history of the mental asylum in comparative context. It presents a cr...
Studies of the Great Depression in Saskatchewan tend to focus on the unsurpassed poverty, unemployme...
During the late 18th and early 19th century the mentally ill who were not considered dangerous or to...
This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study examines the individual experiences of people wh...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
This thesis is a study of the care of the mentally ill in British Columbia from the early days of th...
In this paper QUEBEC shall be utilized as a “case method” example of a province which depicts a line...