Managing madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada / Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada

Managing madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada /

"The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the...

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Main Authors: Dyck, Erika (Author), Deighton, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) > History.
Weyburn Mental Hospital
Psychiatric hospitals > Saskatchewan > History.
Mental health services > Saskatchewan > History.
Mentally ill > Institutional care > Saskatchewan > History.
Mental Health Services > history
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Institutionalization > history
Saskatchewan
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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