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ISBN 10: 0230578071 
ISBN 13: 9780230578074
Author: C Coleborne

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.

Madness in the Family Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World 1860 1914 1st Table of contents:

1 Colonial Psychiatry in the Australasian World
Psychiatry in the British colonial world
Colonial asylum environments
The medical superintendents
Patient populations
2 Families and the Colonial Hospital System, 1860–1910
Insanity and colonial society
Families 'scattered about the colonies'
Heredity and degeneration
Families and hospitals for the insane
3 Families and the Language of Insanity
Popular and expert understandings of madness
Marginal notes: family observations in patient case notes
Lay descriptions of insanity
Expert knowledge
First-hand accounts of mental breakdown
4 Writing to and from the Asylum
Traces of emotion in patient case records
Family and patient correspondence
The asylum as a 'theatre of emotions' for families
5 Tracing Families for Maintenance Payments
Asylum patient maintenance costs in the colonies, 1860s–1900s
Poverty, families and institutions
'Tricks and subterfuges': deceiving authorities?
Family economies: money and emotions
6 Porous Boundaries: Families, Patients and Practices of Extra-Institutional Care
Trial leave and leave of absence: institutional practices across the colonies
Boarding-out
The After Care Association, New South Wales, 1907
7 Conclusion: Families, Insanity and the Archive
Exploring the archives
Locating families
Grappling with archival records: some conclusions
Appendix: Indications of Insanity Noted by Family and Friends of Inmate Prior to Committal
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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