Madness in the family
Subtitle: insanity and institutions in the Australasian colonial world, 1860-1914
By: Catharine Coleborne.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230578074
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Australasia -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Australasia -- History -- 19th century; Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- Australasia -- History -- 19th century; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Australia; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- New Zealand; Family Relations -- Australia; Family Relations -- New Zealand; History, 19th Century -- Australia; History, 19th Century -- New Zealand; History, 20th Century -- Australia; History, 20th Century -- New Zealand; Hospitals, Public -- history -- Australia; Hospitals, Public -- history -- New Zealand; Mental Disorders -- history -- Australia; Mental Disorders -- history -- New Zealand; Professional-Family Relations -- Australia; Professional-Family Relations -- New Zealand
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.