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A Janus-like asylum: the city and the institutional confinement of the mentally ill in Victorian Ontario.
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Urban History Review
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March 22, 2008
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- Wright, David; Day, Shawn; Smith, Jessica; Flis, Nathan
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This paper examines several aspects of the complex relationship between the city and the Victorian lunatic asylum. The first part of the paper demonstrates that the urban-ness of the public mental hospital has been a point of some degree of ambiguity. Mental hospitals were Janus-like--looking forward to the emerging urban world and yet, at the same time, looking back to a romanticized, rustic past. The second part of the paper adopts a quantitative approach and reveals that, far from the receptacle of strictly urban dwellers, the mental hospitals received a remarkable number of mentally ill from rural regions of the province. This finding, derived from one of the largest database studies ...
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