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 Elspeth Knewstubb, LLB (Hons)/BA (Hons) Otago
Gender, Religion and the Medicalization of Madness in New Zealand: a Study of Ashburn Hall, 1882-1910
Elspeth's research looks at Ashburn Hall in Dunedin, New Zealand's only private lunatic asylum and examines at issues surrounding the increasing professionalization and medicalization of the treatment of madness in New Zealand in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. In particular she focuses on the patholigization of women's bodies and minds by medical men, and the ambivalent position of religion in the increasingly secular world of medicine. Elspeth's thesis is funded as part of Professor Angela McCarthy (Otago) and Dr Catharine Coleborne's (Waikato) Marsden Funded project, 'Migration, ethnicity, and insanity in New Zealand and Australia, 1860-1910'.
Contact: kneel995@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Professor Angela McCarthy, Dr. Mark Seymour
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