A Janus-Like Asylum: The City and the Institutional Confinement of the Mentally Ill in Victorian Ontario

Wright, David; Day, Shawn; Smith, Jessica; Flis, Nathan

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“…MacMurchy's strategy for eugenics identified: 1) the need for wide-scale testing for feeblemindedness, 2) reforms to the marriage act 34 , 3) sterilization, and 4) the need for social isolation (MacMurchy, 1915). During her time as the Special Inspector, she sought to test all students in public schools and children in orphanages, (Wright et al, 2013); the policy motivation behind confining and segregating children was fueled by a eugenic desire to remove them from society before they became a "eugenic threat" (MacMurchy, 1915).…”

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The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

Linton¹

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This research investigates access to sexuality for disabled people in Ontario. To understand sexual access, this research uses frameworks of disability justice and critical carceral studies to make explicit the pervasive the ongoing institutionalization of disabled people. Critically analyzing transinstitutionalization policy reveals surveillance, spatial regulation, and the criminalization of sex work as prohibitive barriers in disabled people's realization of their sexual desires. The City of Ottawa serves as a case study to interrogate the municipal regulation of sexuality through Minimum Separation Distance bylaws. The findings of this study illustrate the shared use of policy tools to invisibilize disabled people and sex workers through spatial regulation and segregation. These shared policy tools demonstrate the need for coalitional politics between sex workers and disabled people. The harms associated with transinstitutionalization and criminalization demand urgent action. Abolition responds to this urgency, demanding decriminalization, deinstitutionalization and decarceration.

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The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

Linton¹

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Deinstitutionalization Reconsidered: Geographic and Demographic Changes in Mental Health Care in British Columbia and Alberta, 1950-1980

Boschma¹

2011

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Cet article analyse le processus social connu sous le terme de désinstitutionnalisation, entre 1950 et 1980 en Alberta et en Colombie-Britannique, à partir de données démographiques sur les admissions et les sorties des hôpitaux psychiatriques. Une étude de la situation dans les deux provinces les plus à l'ouest du Canada permet d'analyser ces changements dans ces contextes régionaux. À la suite de nouveaux mécanismes de financement, d'un recadrage des soins communautaires et d'une critique croissante de la nature prétendument écrasante des grands établissements, chacun des trois principaux hôpitaux a réduit son envergure au cours des années 1950. Néanmoins, cette tendance n'a pas entraîné, au cours de cette période, une diminution du nombre global des patients hospitalisés. De fait, le nombre total des hospitalisations, et plus particulièrement celles de courte durée, a augmenté au moment où se produisait un phénomène de trans-institutionnalisation. Cette étude de cas reflète les principales tendances des soins apportés aux maladies psychiatriques de l'après-guerre et illustre les défis - sur un plan social, politique et culturel - auxquels s'est heurtée la reconstruction des soins en établissements.

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A Janus-Like Asylum: The City and the Institutional Confinement of the Mentally Ill in Victorian Ontario

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

Deinstitutionalization Reconsidered: Geographic and Demographic Changes in Mental Health Care in British Columbia and Alberta, 1950-1980

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