Insanity in the 'age of mobility' : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1880s -- Immigrants, mental health and social institutions : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1890s -- Passing through : narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873-1910 -- White men and weak masculinity : men in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s -- Insanity and white femininity : women in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s -- The 'others' : inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctt18dz2w7
Insanity, identity and empire.
9780719087240
Immigrants-- Australia-- Psychology.
Immigrants-- New Zealand-- Psychology.
People with mental disabilities-- Institutional care-- Australia-- History-- 19th century.
People with mental disabilities-- Institutional care-- New Zealand-- History-- 19th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants-- Psychology.
MEDICAL-- History.
People with mental disabilities-- Institutional care.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Emigration & Immigration.
Australia, Emigration and immigration, History, 19th century.
New Zealand, Emigration and immigration, History, 19th century.