The perfect home for the imbalanced : visual culture and the built space of the asylum in early twentieth century and post war Saskatchewan

In the dominant North American imagination, the asylum has always been a place of the other in society. Stories of Saskatchewan asylums and their reincarnations as mental hospitals are filled with early twentieth century horror narratives and redemptive tales of mid-century scientific progress: the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matheson, Elizabeth Mavis
Other Authors: Bell, Lynne
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Saskatchewan 2010
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Online Access:http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-07162010-122638/