Insanity, Identity and Empire - Immigrants Institutional Confinement in Australia New Zealand,

Informationen zum Autor Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand Klappentext Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. Zusammenfassung Based on over 3000 institutional records! Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations! and in so doing! contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Insanity, identity and empire1. Insanity in the 'age of mobility': Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-80s2. Immigrants, mental health and social institutions: Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-90s3. Passing through: narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873-19104. White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s5. Insanity and white femininity: women in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s6. The 'Others': inscribing difference in colonial institutional settingsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Catharine Coleborne, Catharine (Head of School) Coleborne
• Assisted by: John M. Mackenzie (Editor), Andrew Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9780719087240
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8724-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australien, Neuseeland, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), 1900 bis 1909 n. Chr., Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Pflege von psychisch Kranken, Soziale Schichten