 | Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals -- Quebec (Province) -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century; Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Quebec (Province) -- History -- 19th century; Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- O; 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. |
