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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cox, Catherine, 1970-
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	xxiii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Mentally ill -- Care -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Workhouses -- History. Mentally ill -- Care. Psychiatric hospitals. Social conditions Workhouses. Ireland. Ireland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9040684

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ISBN:	9780719075032 (hbk.) 0719075033 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
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
Select bibliography
Index