Book Section

Author

Megahey, Norman

Title

Living in Fremantle Asylum: The Colonial Experience of Disability 1829-1900

In

Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia

Editor

Errol Cocks

Imprint

Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 13-52

Related Entries

Glossary Terms

• Custodial Care [Intellectual Disability]

  p.22

• Down Syndrome (1866 - )

  p.22

• Intellectual Disability

  pp.22, 24-25

Legislation

• Lunacy Act 1871 (1871 - 1903)

  pp.26, 45

• Lunacy Act 1903 (1903 - 1962)

  p.45

Organisations

• Fremantle Asylum (1857 - 1909)

  pp.31-32, 33, 35, 39-43

• Whitby Falls Hospital (1897 - 1972)

  p.44

Related Publications

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• Cocks, Errol, Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996. Details