Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923 9780773562035

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Table of contents :
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
1 Introduction
2 Retreat from the Madhouse: Ontario's First Experiment in Corporate Health Care
3 Asylum Superintendents and the Medical Community, 1883–1923
4 The Medical World of the Asylum: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
5 The First Mrs Rochester: Family Motivations for Commitment and the Dynamics of Social Redundancy
6 Hearth to Homewood: Domestic Life, Mental Breakdown, and Responses to the Institution
7 Daily Life at Homewood: the Sub-Culture of Work
8 Resistant Patients and the Reactive Institution
9 Because There Is Pain: Medical Treatment of Alcoholism
10 The Aristocratic Vice: Medical Treatment of Drug Addiction in the Nineteenth Century
11 Conclusion
Appendices
1 Prospectus of 1883
2 Prospectus of 1915
3 The Life Chart of Emily C.
4 Sample Patient History and Admitting Interview
5 Prospectus of 1934
6 Schedule of Prices for Inebriates
7 Instructions for the Use of the Continuous Baths
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
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