{"product_id":"remembrance-of-patients-past-geoffrey-reaume-9781442610750","title":"Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Patients Past\u003c\/em\u003e, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum's walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing first person accounts by and about patients - including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff - Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Reaume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442610751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442610750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Geoffrey Reaume","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056769855743,"sku":"9781442610750","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_170e3c18-76d2-4879-a0a0-ab98aca9096f.jpg?v=1685043173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remembrance-of-patients-past-geoffrey-reaume-9781442610750","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}