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Irish insanity, 1800-2000 /
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided a convenient form of institutional intervention to manage a host of social problems.Irish Insanity identifies the long-term trends in institutional residency through the development of a detailed empirical data set, based on an analysis of original copies of the reports of Inspector of Asylums. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203101804 9780203101803 9781136237072 1136237070 9781136237089 1136237089 9781136237034 1136237038 9781138195509 1138195502 |