 | Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century Subjects: Prison visits -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century; Prison visits -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Socia; Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal. Miron Janet : Janet Miron is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Trent University. |
