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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 ins...
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.
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- Creator
- Catherine Cox
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- English
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- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : charts
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- 1526129841, 9780719075032, 0719075033, 1781704767, 9781781704769, 9781526129840, 1526142619
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- ocn842363827
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
- Workhouses -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
- Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Mentally Ill Persons -- history.
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- Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history.
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- Mental Health Services -- history.
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