Sex and seclusion, class, and custody : perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry /

"This collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- (Editor ), Digby, Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Leiden, Netherlands] : [Brill], [2016]
Colección:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 73.
Temas:
1800-1899
Sex differences (Psychology) > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Sex factors > Great Britain > 19th century.
Social psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health policy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health policy > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Différences entre sexes (Psychologie) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies mentales > Facteurs sexuels > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle.
Psychiatrie sociale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
1800-1899.
Mental health policy
Mental illness > Sex factors
Mental illness > Social aspects
Sex differences (Psychology)
Social psychiatry
Great Britain
Ireland
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : gender and class in the historiography of British and Irish psychiatry / Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby
  • 2. Class, gender and madness in eighteenth-century Scotland / Robert Allan Houston
  • 3. Gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland / Oonagh Walsh
  • 4. Class, gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Wales / Pamela Michael
  • 5. 'Embarrassed circumstances' : gender, poverty, and insanity in the West Riding of England in the early-Victorian years / Marjorie Levine-Clark
  • 6. Delusions of gender? : lay identification and clinical diagnosis of insanity in Victorian England / David Wright
  • 7. Sex and sensibility in cultural history : the English governess and the lunatic asylum, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling
  • 8. female patient : experience in two late-nineteenth-century Surrey asylums / Anne Shepherd
  • 9. class apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910 / Lorraine Walsh
  • 10. 'A menace to the good of society' : class, fertility, and the feeble-minded in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson
  • 11. Class and gender in twentieth-century British psychiatry : shell-shock and psychopathic disorder / Joan Busfield.

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