Sex and seclusion, class and custody : perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004. |
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| Description: | 338 p., 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica ; 73 Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 73. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5160461 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry
- 2. Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
- 3. Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 4. Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales
- 5. 'Embarrassed Circumstances': Gender, Poverty, and Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years
- 6. Delusions of Gender?: Lay Identification and Clinical Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England
- 7. Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914
- 8. The Female Patient Experience in Two Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums
- 9. A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910
- 10. 'A Menace to the Good of Society': Class, Fertility, and the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England
- 11. Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry: Sehll-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder
- Index of People and Places
- Index of Subjects
