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Madness in the Family

Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914

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Authors:
  1. Catharine Coleborne

    1. University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 1-14

  3. Colonial Psychiatry in the Australasian World

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 15-42

  4. Families and the Colonial Hospital System, 1860–1910

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 43-64

  5. Families and the Language of Insanity

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 65-87

  6. Writing to and from the Asylum

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 88-106

  7. Tracing Families for Maintenance Payments

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 107-121

  8. Porous Boundaries: Families, Patients and Practices of Extra-Institutional Care

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 122-142

  9. Conclusion: Families, Insanity and the Archive

    • Catharine Coleborne
    Pages 143-153

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 154-220
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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.

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  • University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Catharine Coleborne

About the author

CATHARINE COLEBORNE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her book Reading 'madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880, was published in 2007. She is currently part of a new team project to investigate insanity and ethnicity in colonial Australasia.

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