Catharine Coleborne

Insanity, identity and empire

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087240
• ISBN-10: 0719087244
• Artikelnr.: 42803550

Autorenporträt

Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Insanity
identity and empire 1. Insanity in the 'age of mobility': Melbourne and Auckland
1850s-80s 2. Immigrants
mental health and social institutions: Melbourne and Auckland
1850s-90s 3. Passing through: narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane
1873-1910 4. White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums
1860s-1900s 5. Insanity and white femininity: women in the public asylums
1860s-1900s 6. The 'Others': inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings Conclusion Bibliography Index