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In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experimentation, and social control into public perceptions of the field.

During the build-up to the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, the Irish media reported upon, and helped to generate, a number of controversies about the planned commemorations. For example, in the wake of the Queen of England's visit to Ireland in 2011 – the first such by a British monarch in a century – commentators debated whether a member of the British royal family should be present at the GPO, which served as headquarters of the Rising, for the official Irish state event on Easter Sunday. Others argued about how to involve the grandchildren and relatives of the dead rebels, and disputed how to treat the revisionist opinions of figures such as the former Taoiseach John Bruton. Some criticised the launch of the government's commemorative programme at the GPO in November 2014, when the minute-and-a half-long video that was made especially for that launch – a breezily corporate piece called 'Ireland Inspires' – featured the international rugby player Brian O'Driscoll scoring a try and other uplifting images of modern Ireland, but lacked any mention of the actual Easter Rising or any of its participants.

Intro -- 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.

The Healthy Kids Act (H.R. 4053) legislation does three things: (1) establishes an office of Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention and Treatment within the Department of Health and Human Services to provide information and promote action on healthy eating, (2) institutes a three-tier system for labeling foods, and (3) enables regulatory action to curb food commercials targeting children.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.7 issue 1 (February 2008) ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.