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Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

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Description:Moments of Unreason is the first detailed study of a private asylum in North America: the Homewood Retreat in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1883 as an early Canadian venture into corporate health care. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh studies the careers of its first two medical superintendents, Stephen Lett and Alfred Hobbs, which spanned the evolution of mental health theory from moral management to mental therapeutics and, later, neuro-psychiatry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923. To get started finding Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Release: 1989

ISBN: 0773562036

Description: Moments of Unreason is the first detailed study of a private asylum in North America: the Homewood Retreat in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1883 as an early Canadian venture into corporate health care. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh studies the careers of its first two medical superintendents, Stephen Lett and Alfred Hobbs, which spanned the evolution of mental health theory from moral management to mental therapeutics and, later, neuro-psychiatry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923. To get started finding Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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