Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900 /

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This book explores local medical, lay, and legal negotiations with the asylum system in nineteenth-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane. Uniquely, it expands the anal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Catherine, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Workhouses > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Mentally ill > Care > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Ireland > Social conditions > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Shaping the Irish asylum system
  • 2. Expansion and demand
  • 3. Routes into the asylums
  • 4. Insanity on display : magistrates, doctors and families, 1840-70
  • 5. Households and institutionalisation
  • 6. Workhouses and the mentally ill
  • 7. Inside the asylums
  • 8. Conclusion.

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