Committed to the state asylum [electronic resource] : insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / James E. Moran.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix
Interpreting Sophie's World i
1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the
"Farming-Out System" in Quebec 13
2 Insanity, Community, and Commissioner:
The State and the Government System in Ontario 48
3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in
Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario 77
4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social,
Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal 113
5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution
of a Psychiatric Disorder 141
Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State,
and the Management of Insanity 167.