Attending madness : at work in the Australian colonial asylum /
Monk, Lee-Ann.
Attending madness : at work in the Australian colonial asylum / Lee-Ann Monk. - 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations. - Clio medica, 84 0045-7183 ; The Wellcome series in the history of medicine . - Clio Medica 84. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Dedication / Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Introduction / An Asylum for the Safe Custody and Proper Treatment of the Insane / A Proper Man to Have Charge of Lunatics / We Have Always Conducted Ourselves Independently / Artisans of Reason / Proper Instructions: Excellent Attendants / A Different Class of Attendants / You Have to be Firm and Determined with Them / Some of Us are Married Men and Have Families / I Would Not Give an Ounce of Practical Experience for a Pound of Theory / Select Bibliography / Index / Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness.
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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.
9789401206013
10.1163/9789401206013 DOI
Psychiatric hospitals--Australia.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Australia.
History.
RC451.A8 / M66 2008eb
362.21
Attending madness : at work in the Australian colonial asylum / Lee-Ann Monk. - 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations. - Clio medica, 84 0045-7183 ; The Wellcome series in the history of medicine . - Clio Medica 84. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Dedication / Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Introduction / An Asylum for the Safe Custody and Proper Treatment of the Insane / A Proper Man to Have Charge of Lunatics / We Have Always Conducted Ourselves Independently / Artisans of Reason / Proper Instructions: Excellent Attendants / A Different Class of Attendants / You Have to be Firm and Determined with Them / Some of Us are Married Men and Have Families / I Would Not Give an Ounce of Practical Experience for a Pound of Theory / Select Bibliography / Index / Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness -- Editors Attending Madness.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789401206013
10.1163/9789401206013 DOI
Psychiatric hospitals--Australia.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Australia.
History.
RC451.A8 / M66 2008eb
362.21