Catharine Coleborne studied History at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University and is now an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. She recently published Madness in the family: insanity and institutions in the Australasian colonial world, 1860-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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