Mental Health and Canadian Society

James Moran is professor, history, University of Prince Edward Island, and the author of Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec.David Wright is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Mc

• Contributors include Andr Cellard (Ottawa), Ian Dowbiggin (Prince Edward Island), Erika Dyck (Alberta), Judith Fingard (Dalhousie), Allison Kirk-Montgomery (Toronto), Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser), Janet Miron (Trent), James Moran (Prince Edward Island), Thierry Nootens (Sherbrooke), Ted Palys (Simon Fraser), Geoffrey Reaume (York), John Rutherford (Dalhousie), Marie-Claude Thifault (Hearst), David Wright (McMaster)

"An illustration of the more nuanced, path-breaking, and often contentious scholarship in mental health history. This volume will immediately become a leading work in the field and stimulus for further scholarship." Peter McCandles, College of Charleston "Moran and Wright have managed to capture, in a single volume, the wide range of approaches to the history of madness now being employed by Canadian scholars." Ellen Dwyer, Indiana University