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Managing Madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780887555374
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Managing MadnessDDC classification:
  • 362.2/1097124
LOC classification:
  • RA790.5 .M363 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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