Major Publications:
Books:
Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in
Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec (Montreal: McGill Queen’s
University Press, 2000, 226p).
with David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical
Perspectives (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2006).
with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and
the Built
Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007).
Refereed Articles (since 2000):
‘Mental Disorder and Criminality in Canada: 1830-1990’, in Ivan Crozier,
Harry Oosterhuis and Richard Wetzell, Criminal Responsibility and
Psychiatry: International Perspectives (forthcoming).
‘The Architecture of Madness: Informal and Formal Spaces of Treatment
and Care in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey’, in Leslie Topp and Jonathan
Andrews (eds.) Psychiatric Spaces: Architecture and the Built
Environment, 1600-2000 (Routledge, 2007), 153-172.
‘Power Failure? Power and the New Social History of Madness’, in
Jean-Marie Fecteau eds. Agency and Institutions in Social Regulation
(Québec: Les Presses de l’université de Québec, 2005), 20pp.
with David Wright and Sean Gouglas, ‘The Confinement of the Mad in
Victorian Canada’, in Roy Porter and David Wright eds., The Confinement
of the Insane, 1800-1965 : International Perspectives (Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press, 2003), 175-222.
‘The Signal and the Noise: The Historical Epidemiology of Insanity in
Antebellum New Jersey’, History of Ps
ychiatry, 14, 3 (2003), 281-301.
Membre des sociétés académiques:
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Canadian Historical Association
Courses Taught:
Madness and Society in International Perspective
Medicine in North American Society: Historical Perspectives
Post Confederation Canada
The Art of History
Canadian Social History, Post 1914
Pre Confederation Canada
Quebec: Conquest to the Quiet Revolution
Canadian Social History to 1914
Medicine and North American Society in Historical Perspective
