First Name
Janet
Last Name
Miron
Email
janetmiron@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 6049
Location
Traill College, Kerr House room 103.6
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Associate Professor
Job Designation
Director for the Graduate Programs of the School for the Study of Canada
Accreditation
B.A. (McGill); M.A., Ph.D. (York).
Home Department
Program Affiliation
Publications
Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2009).
“’In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz (New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2009): 243-266.
“Recent Approaches to the History of Psychoactive Substances and Social Regulation in Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes. Volume 42, Number 3 (Fall 2008): 227-233.
“’Open to the Public’: Touring Ontario Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, edited by James E. Moran and David Wright (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006): 19-48.
“Suicide, Coroner’s Inquests, and the Parameters of Compassion in Ontario, 1830-1900,” Histoire sociale/Social History, (November, 2014): 577-599.
A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2009).
“’In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz (New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2009): 243-266.
“Recent Approaches to the History of Psychoactive Substances and Social Regulation in Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes. Volume 42, Number 3 (Fall 2008): 227-233.
“’Open to the Public’: Touring Ontario Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, edited by James E. Moran and David Wright (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006): 19-48.
“Suicide, Coroner’s Inquests, and the Parameters of Compassion in Ontario, 1830-1900,” Histoire sociale/Social History, (November, 2014): 577-599.
Research Centres and Institutions
Areas of Research
The history of suicide in English-speaking Canada; medical and criminal history; asylums and prisons
Media Database
Yes