Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables, Figures, and Map ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. “Open to the Public” Touring Ontario Asylums in the Nineteenth Century 19
8. “For Years We Have Never Had a Happy Home” Madness and Families in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 49
9. Patients at Work Insane Asylum Inmates’ Labour in Ontario, 1841–1900 69
10. The Uses of Asylums Resistance, Asylum Propaganda, and Institutionalization Strategies in Turn-of-the-Century Quebec 97
11. “Loaded Revolvers” Ontario’s First Forensic Psychiatrists 117
12. Turbulent Spirits Aboriginal Patients in the British Columbia Psychiatric System, 1879–1950 149
13. “Prescription for Survival” Brock Chisholm, Sterilization, and Mental Health in the Cold War Era 176
14. Social Disintegration, Problem Pregnancies, Civilian Disasters Psychiatric Research in Nova Scotia in the 1950s 194
15. Prairie Psychedelics Mental Health Research in Saskatchewan, 1951–1967 221
16. Selected Bibliography 245
17. Index 255