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.

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University of Waikato, New Zealand

Catharine Coleborne

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CATHARINE COLEBORNE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her book Reading 'madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880, was published in 2007. She is currently part of a new team project to investigate insanity and ethnicity in colonial Australasia.

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Book Title: Madness in the Family
Book Subtitle: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914
Authors: Catharine Coleborne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248649
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57807-4Published: 18 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36761-0Published: 18 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24864-9Published: 18 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 220
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Australasian History, Cultural History, Social History, History of Science, History of Psychology, History of Medicine

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