Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900 /
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Author / Creator: | Cox, Catherine, 1970- author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Mentally ill -- Care -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Workhouses -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. Mentally ill -- Care. Psychiatric hospitals. Social conditions. Workhouses. Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Ireland. Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12019239 |
Summary: | 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 analytical focus beyond asylums incorporating the impact that the Irish poor law, petty session courts and medical dispensaries had on the provision of services. It provides insights into life in asylums for patients and staff. The study uses Carlow asylum district - comprised of counties Wexford, Kildare, Kilkenny and Carlow in the southeast of Ireland - to explore the 'place of the asylum' in the period.<br> <br> This book will be useful for scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland, the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland, Irish studies and gender studies. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781526129840 1526129841 9780719075032 |