Madness in the family: insanity and institutions in the Australasian colonial world, 1860-1914
Coleborne, Catharine
Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914. INDICE: List of Figures - List of Maps - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Colonial Psychiatry in the Australasian World - Families and the Colonial Hospital System, 1860-1900 - Families and the Language of Insanity - Writing to and from the Asylum - Tracing Families for Maintenance Payments- Porous Boundaries: Families, Patients and Practices of Extra-Institutional Care - Conclusion: Families, Insanity, and the Archive - Appendix: Indicationsof insanity noted by family and friends of inmate prior to committal - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57807-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés