University of Toronto, Canada.
Hist Psychiatry. 2021 Jun;32(2):210-226. doi: 10.1177/0957154X20985331. Epub 2021 Jan 14.
This paper investigates the role of admission forms in the regulation of asylum confinement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Taking the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as a case study it traces the evolution of the forms' content and structure during the first decades of this institution. Admission forms provide important material for understanding the medico-legal assessment of lunacy in a certain jurisdiction. First, they show how the description of insanity depended on a plurality of actors. Second, doctors were not necessarily required to indicate symptoms of derangement. Third, patients' relatives played a fundamental role in providing clinical information. From an historiographical perspective, this paper invites scholars to consider the function of standardized documents in shaping the written identity of patients.
本文探讨了入院表格在 19 世纪后半叶规范收容所管理中的作用。本文以多伦多疯人院为例，追溯了该机构成立最初几十年中表格内容和结构的演变。入院表格为了解特定司法管辖区对精神错乱的医学法律评估提供了重要材料。首先，它们表明了精神错乱的描述如何取决于多种行为者。其次，医生不一定需要指出错乱的症状。第三，患者的亲属在提供临床信息方面发挥了根本性的作用。从历史编纂学的角度来看，本文邀请学者们考虑标准化文件在塑造患者书面身份方面的功能。
