DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michel Foucault, Moral Treatment, Mississaugas Of The New Credit First Nation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

Building our very own bedlam: the queen street site. The asylum was once thought to be, by itself, a cure for madness. Bethlem (called bedlam as it (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)(cid:272)razy(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:272)haos(cid:863)) in london, the most famous and first asylum; first took in sick people and then mad people, then developed spaces specifically to contain mad people. Original provincial lunatic asylum in toronto in 1850s, built where camh is now. Camh came into being in 1998, an amalgamation of four separate institutions in. Starts at the provincial lunatic asylum in 1841, then asylum for the insane in 1871, the. Hospital for the insane in 1907, ontario hospital in 1919, the queen street mental. John george howard: architect of the provincial lunatic asylum, largest building in. The way you build something determines how the mad people will behave, connects to moral therapy which was the way to deal with mad people in the 1880s, mad people need discipline and structure.