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Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)

New Books in Science
New Books in Science
Episode • Jan 31, 2018 • 55m

Embracing a multi-perspectival authorial voice, Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2017), tells the story of the “last and largest” asylum in the British Commonwealth. From its founding in the 1920s until the age of deinstitutionalization, Weyburn Mental Hospital...

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