Book ID: CBB001200659

Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century (2011)

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Miron, Janet (Author)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: x + 254 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

"The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters, diaries, and articles. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these visitors were not members of the medical or legal elite but were ordinary people. Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the perspectives of officials, the public, and the institutionalized. Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal."--pub. desc.

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Authors & Contributors
Wright, David
Coleborne, Catharine
Faschi, Viviana
Parsons, Anne E.
Valacchi, Maria Luisa
Scrimgeour, David
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Hospitals and clinics
Medicine
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Australia
Canada
England
United States
New Zealand
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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