From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial opportunity and the repositioning of a Victorian private psychiatric hospital
Joseph, A.E. and Moon, G. (2002) From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial opportunity and the repositioning of a Victorian private psychiatric hospital. Social Science and Medicine, 55, (12), 2193-2200. (doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00364-1).
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Description/Abstract
This paper examines the interplayof commercial imperatives and health care legislation in the survival of a privately
owned psychiatric hospital in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Using documentary and archival evidence, we show how the
Homewood Retreat (later Sanitarium, and eventuallyHealth Centre) was able to respond to and anticipate legislative
developments through the agencyof successive medical superintendents and the structural positioning of the institution
as an inextricablyintegrated element in local and provincial mental health provision. Our case studyis used to draw out
wider lessons concerning agency, legislative context and treatment modality in the determination of organizational
histories. We conclude bynoting the important role of the private sector in ensuring the continued provision of an
asylum form of mental health care.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0277-9536 (print) |
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| Keywords: | asylum, private sector, mental health policy, Canada |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Geography > Economy, Culture, Space |
| Item ID: | 55389 |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:32 |
| Contributors: | Joseph, A.E. (Author) Moon, G. (Author) |
| Date: | December 2002 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | G.Moon@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55389 |
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