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Erika Dyck

Managing Madness

Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada

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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted inte… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Deighton, Alex / Mitchell, Tracey (Zus. mit) / Dyck, Alexander (Zus. mit) / Gerber, Gary (Zus. mit) / Lafave, Hugh (Zus. mit) / Elias, John (Zus. mit) / Mills, John (Zus. mit)
  • ISBN: 978-0-88755-535-0
  • EAN: 9780887555350
  • Produktnummer: 28912247
  • Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'697 KB

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Erika Dyck is a historian of health, medicine, and Canadian society at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research has concentrated on the history of mental health, institutionalization, and experimentation.

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