Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Interpreting Sophie's World -- 1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the "Farming-Out System" in Quebec -- 2 Insanity, Community and Commissioner: The State and the Government System in Ontario -- 3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario -- 4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social, Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal -- 5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution of a Psychiatric Disorder -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State, and the Management of Insanity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.