Madness in the Family Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914 | EKB DL

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

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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.