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Event 1
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The Politics of Mental Health in Ontario:
From Asylum to Integration
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Thursday, February 12, 2004
1–3pm (lectures), 3–4 pm (public reception)
Vivian & David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk Centre for International Studies
Description:
A history of the attitudes and ideas that marked the public response
to mental illness as illustrated through the establishment of public
mental hospitals in Victorian Ontario and the contemporary transformation
of the Queen Street site of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
in downtown Toronto.
Featuring:
Introductory Remarks
by The Hon. James K. Bartleman
(Lieutenant Governor of Ontario)
“The Rise of the Lunatic Asylum
in Ontario” by Dr. David Wright
(Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, and Department
of History, McMaster University)
“Transforming Tradition: Modern Mental
Health and the Case of ‘999’ Queen St. West”
by Dr. David S. Goldbloom, MD, FRCPC (Senior Medical
Advisor, Education and Public Affairs, Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto)
Chair:
Dr. Peter Warrian (Managing Director, The Lupina Foundation)
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