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

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This text explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in 19th-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of protagonists' attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cox, Catherine, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Mentally ill > Care > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Workhouses > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
Commitment of Mentally Ill > history
Mental Health Services > history
History, 19th Century
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ateliers prisons > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mentally ill > Care
Psychiatric hospitals
Social conditions
Workhouses
Public Health.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Mental Illness Prevention.
Ireland > Social conditions > 19th century.
Ireland.
Ireland
Irlande.
Irlande > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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