Attending madness at work in the Australian colonial asylum
He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870's. This book...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
84. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798375506719 |
| Sumario: | He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870's. This book is a history of William Coady’s occupation, a history asylum work and workers in nineteenth-century Australia. It considers not only who attendants were and why they worked in the asylum, but also how they and others variously defined the very good attendant. Colonial asylum advocates imagined the attendant as an archetype, drawing on ideas from Britain about the nature of insanity and its treatment. In exploring the articulation of these ideas in a specific colonial context and their effect on the colonial asylum workplace, Lee-Ann Monk makes an important contribution to the international history of the asylum. She also opens new dimensions in the history of this occupation, on which the fate of patients very much depended, by analysing attendants’ efforts to construct an occupational identity and give meaning to their work, thus providing new insights into their sense of themselves and their occupation. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401206013 9781435677678 |
