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Moments of unreason : the practice of Canadian psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923
- Title
- Moments of unreason : the practice of Canadian psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
- Author
- Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC448.O53 G882 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 279 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Homewood Retreat > History
- Homewood Retreat
- 1800-1899
- Psychiatric hospitals > Ontario > Guelph > History > 19th century
- Psychiatry > Canada > History > 19th century
- Psychiatric hospitals > Ontario > Guelph > History
- Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
- Psychiatry > history
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Psychiatry
- Psychiatrische inrichtingen
- Psychiatrie
- Ontario
- Canada
- Ontario > Guelph
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [219]-267.
- Contents
- Retreat from the madhouse: Ontario's first experiment in corporate health care -- Asylum superintendents and the medical community, 1883-1923 -- The medical world of the asylum: diagnostics and therapeutics -- The first Mrs. Rochester: family motivations for commitment and the dynamics of social redundancy -- Hearth to Homewood: domestic life, mental breakdown, and responses to the institution -- Daily life at Homewood: the sub-culture of work -- Resistant patients and the reactive institution -- Because there is pain: medical treatment of alcoholism -- The aristocratic vice: medical treatment of drug addiction in the nineteenth century.
- ISBN
- 0773507019
- 9780773507012
- LCCN
- 93136611
- OCLC
- ocm28147612
- 28147612
- SCSB-1911283
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library