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Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)
Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)
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56 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2018
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Podcast episode
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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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Jan 31, 2018
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