Madness in the Family - Insanity Institutions in Australasian Colonial World, 1860 1914

Informationen zum Autor CATHARINE COLEBORNE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her book Reading 'madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880 , was published in 2007. She is currently part of a new team project to investigate insanity and ethnicity in colonial Australasia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: Indications of insanity noted by family and friends of inmate prior to committal Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: C Coleborne, C. Coleborne, Catharine Coleborne
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2009
• EAN: 9780230578074
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57807-4
• No. of pages: 235
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, History, Social History, Australia, Psychology, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, History of Psychology, Medicine—History, Islands of the Pacific—History, Australasian History, Australian History, Archive;Familie;insanity;psychiatry