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David J. Wright

Also known as: David Wright, Dr. David J. Wright

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David Wright is a Canadian academic in the history of mental health. He works as a professor of health and social policy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Robben Island, an island off the southern coast of South Africa barely six miles from Cape Town, the capital city of the Cape Colony in the nineteenth century, accommodated 'lunatics', 'lepers' and the 'chronic sick' for nearly a century after 1846.

— from The confinement of the insane

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Outside the Walls of the Asylum

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Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968

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The confinement of the insane

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This collection examines the origins of asylum as a mechanism for the treatment of insanity. Taking a global view, it considers the socioeconomic & theoretical factors which have shaped the modern notion of madness & the need for confinement of those deemed to be insane.

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