Criminal Insanity in 19th Century Asylums

"A state bordering on insanity"?: identifying drug addiction in nineteenth-century Canadian asylums.

This article examines the growing awareness of drug addiction as form of mental illness in several Canadian lunatic asylums in the last half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Whereas in the 1870s and 1880s, medical and reform associations formed to cure and treat addiction and inebriety, asylum evidence suggests that it was not until the turn of the century that drug...

On Criminal Insanity

Introduction: histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland

This paper introduces a special issue on 'Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland', situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field. Using Allan Beveridge's claims in 1993 about the relative lack of research on the history of psychiatry in Scotland, the paper reviews a range of contributions that have emerged since then, loosely distinguishi...

Reducing stigma of criminal insanity

Andrew Axer1, Robert C. Beckett2, Jennifer Jones3: 1Johnson Creek Secure Treatment Facility, Columbia Care Services, Inc. 2808 SE Balfour Street Milwaukie, OR 97222; 2Columbia Care Services, Inc. 2015 NW 507 Flanders St., Portland, Oregon 97209 USA; 3Office 3587 Heathrow Way Medford, OR 97504; Correspondence address: Andrew Axer, Columbia Care Services, Inc.; 2015 NW 507 Flanders St., Portland,...

19th century South America

This basic socio-cultural framework, with all its inherent ambivalences and contradictions, emerged during the colonial era and exercised a deep and lasting impact on the political, economic and social structure of the new South American nations. Only after many decades was the impact blurred by the action of other external influences, change occurring from within, and a growing sense of nation...