Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in 19th-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane, it argues that asylum development was the result of complex relationships among an array of people.
Trade Review"A very valuable contribution to the historiography of psychiatric medicine. By relying heavily on primary records dealing with patient committal and relations among the many interested parties in asylum medicine in Ontario and Quebec history, Moran does something truly original and profound." Ian R. Dowbiggin, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island "Sound scholarship. The empirical base of the book is solid. Moran displays a sound command of the secondary literature and of the on-going historiographical debates on the nature of the nineteenth-century psychiatric experience." Thomas E. Brown, Humanities, Mount Royal College "The author has an excellent understanding of historiography. The book is very accurate, and Moran's analyses are both careful and meticulous." Andre Cellard, Department of History, University of Ottawa
