Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Retreat From the Madhouse: Ontario’s First Experiment in Corporate Health Care 6
7. Asylum Superintendents and the Medical Community, 1883–1923 21
8. The Medical World of the Asylum: Diagnostics and Therapeutics 37
9. The First Mrs Rochester: Family Motivations for Commitment and the Dynamics of Social Redundancy 63
10. Hearth to Homewood: Domestic Life, Mental Breakdown, and Responses to the Institution 82
11. Daily Life at Home-wood: The Sub-Culture of Work 101
12. Resistant Patients and the Reactive Institution 120
13. Because There is Pain: Medical Treatment of Alcoholism 144
14. The Aristocratic Vice: Medical Treatment of Drug Addiction in the Nineteenth Century 155
15. Conclusion 171
16. Appendices
17. Prospectus of 1883 177
18. Prospectus of 1915 180
19. The Life Chart of Emily C. (#94, 1915) 185
20. Sample Patient History and Admitting Interview, Clara B. (#27, 1916) 186
21. Prospectus of 1934 190
22. Schedule of Prices for Inebriates 192
23. Instructions for the Use of the Continuous Baths at the Homewood Sanitarium 193
24. Abbreviations 195
25. Notes 197
26. Bibliography 219
27. Index 269