Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives

In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada.\n\nConsidering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD. Additional ISBNs 9780773531390Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives is written by James E. Moran; David Wright and published by Mc Gill-Queen's University Press. ISBNs for Mental Health and Canadian Society are 9780773576544, 0773576541 and the print ISBNs are 9780773531314, 0773531319. Additional ISBNs include 9780773531390.