Dr. James Moran is a History professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. He teaches courses in Canadian History, historiography, and the history of health, science and medicine. His academic work focuses on researching and publishing about the history of mental health, a topic he feels is as important today as it has been at any point in the past.
Dr. Moran’s publications include: Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario (2000); with David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (2006); with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context(2007); and Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy, (2018).
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