Managing Madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada.
Dyck, Erika.
Managing Madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Who Has Seen the Asylum -- Chapter 1: Optimism and Celebration -- Chapter 2: Experiencing the Asylum -- Chapter 3: False Starts -- Photo Section 1 -- Chapter 4: Socializing Mental Health Care -- Chapter 5: Pills, Politics, and Experiments of All Kinds -- Chapter 6: Dissolving the Walls -- Chapter 7: Hospital Diasporas -- Photo Section 2 -- Chapter 8: Consumption and Survival -- Conclusion: Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.
9780887555374
Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.).
Mental health services-Saskatchewan-History.
Mentally ill-Institutional care-Saskatchewan-History.
Psychiatric hospitals-Saskatchewan-History.
Electronic books.
RA790.5 .M363 2017
362.2/1097124
Managing Madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Who Has Seen the Asylum -- Chapter 1: Optimism and Celebration -- Chapter 2: Experiencing the Asylum -- Chapter 3: False Starts -- Photo Section 1 -- Chapter 4: Socializing Mental Health Care -- Chapter 5: Pills, Politics, and Experiments of All Kinds -- Chapter 6: Dissolving the Walls -- Chapter 7: Hospital Diasporas -- Photo Section 2 -- Chapter 8: Consumption and Survival -- Conclusion: Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.
9780887555374
Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.).
Mental health services-Saskatchewan-History.
Mentally ill-Institutional care-Saskatchewan-History.
Psychiatric hospitals-Saskatchewan-History.
Electronic books.
RA790.5 .M363 2017
362.2/1097124