Thomas J.W. Burgess et l’administration du Verdun Protestant Hospital for the Insane, 1890-1916

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Title
Thomas J.W. Burgess et l’administration du Verdun Protestant Hospital for the Insane, 1890-1916
Abstract
An examination of the administration of the Verdun Protestant Asylum, and the central role played by Dr. Thomas Burgess (1849-1926), from the asylum’s opening in 1890 until the First World War. The author focuses on the marked difference between the democratic approach to management actively employed at Verdun and the more rigid proprietorial control that characterized Francophone asylums in the province during this period. He then outlines methods for organizing the daily routine of patients; achievements arising from the systematic application of moral treatment and the importance that Dr. Burgess gave to this form of treatment; and the problems encountered in medical superintendence of the asylum during these difficult years. The author concludes by considering how Dr. Burgess and his colleagues contributed both to the development of the psychiatric profession in Quebec and to medical research into mental illness.
Publication
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine
Volume
Vol. 14
Issue
no. 1
Pages
5-35
Date
1997
Language
fr
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Citation
Paradis, André M. “Thomas J.W. Burgess et l’administration du Verdun Protestant Hospital for the Insane, 1890-1916.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine Vol. 14, no. 1 (1997): 5–35. https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cbmh.14.1.5.
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