Attending Madness

At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum

Автор: Lee-Ann Monk

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Издател: Brill

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'He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient,...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Lee-Ann Monk

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2008

страници

270

EAN

9789042024199

ISBN

9789042024199

Enbook ID

09012153

Издател

Brill

Теглоt

599

Размери

155 x 230 x 19

Пълно описание

'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 1870s. 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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