"Unfortunate folk" : a study of the social context of committal to Seacliff Asylum 1928-1937

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"Unfortunate folk" : a study of the social context of committal to Seacliff Asylum 1928-1937

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It is the intention of this essay, then, to lend that complement to historiography of insanity in New Zealand by positing the experience of the judged, rather than that of the judges as central to the interpretation of mental illness. The deconstruction of a mental hospital patient population allows an alternative perception of the asylum to that advanced by the traditional theories of control and progress. From the documents of committal and the case-notes of the incarcerated there emerge th...

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Masters

Date created

1991

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Holloway, Judith

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/2822

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