Attending madness; at work in the Australian Colonial Asylum.
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Attending madness; at work in the Australian Colonial Asylum.
Monk, Lee-Ann.
Editions Rodopi
2008
266 pages
$85.00
Hardcover
Clio medica medica (māˑ·dē·k : Wellcome series in the history of medicine; 84
RC445
Monk (history, La Trobe La Trobe may refer to: - Charles La Trobe (1801 - 1875), the first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria, Australia.
Places named after Charles La Trobe: - La Trobe University, Victoria
- Latrobe Valley, Victoria
U.) takes a unique view of the asylum
system in terms of the occupation standards of attendants. She finds the
attendants attempted to construct an occupational identity and give
meaning to their work as she delineates the nature of asylums (so-called
"safe havens Safe Havens is a comic strip drawn by cartoonist Bill Holbrook and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. Started in 1988, the strip is currently published in more than 50 newspapers. "), the qualifications for attendants, their
justifications for their behaviors with patients, the relationship with
administrators, their characteristics, and their cheerful ignorance of
theory, even at the rudimentary level then extant ex·tant
adj.
1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts.
2. Archaic Standing out; projecting. . The result is
fascinating, if sometimes harrowing.
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