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dc.contributor.authorMauger, Alice
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-24 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-18 13:36:15
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:22:27Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:22:27Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier1001538
dc.identifierOCN: 1076791127en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28419
dc.description.abstractThis open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its causes, and patient experiences, were influenced by these concepts. The strong emphasis on land and its interconnectedness with notions of class identity and respectability in Ireland lends a particularly interesting dimension. The book interrogates the popular notion that relatives were routinely locked away to be deprived of land or inheritance, querying how often “land grabbing” Irish families really abused the asylum system for their personal economic gain. The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMental Health in Historical Perspective
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services::MBPK Mental health servicesen_US
dc.subject.otherpublic asylum
dc.subject.othervoluntary asylum
dc.subject.otherprivate asylum
dc.subject.otherinsanity
dc.subject.othermental health
dc.subject.othercosts
dc.subject.otherhealthcare
dc.subject.otherIreland
dc.subject.othernineteenth century
dc.subject.otherBelfast
dc.subject.otherDublin
dc.subject.otherEnnis
dc.subject.otherEnniscorthy
dc.subject.otherHampstead
dc.subject.otherLunatic asylum
dc.subject.otherPsychiatric hospital
dc.titleThe Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
dc.title.alternativePublic, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9783319652443
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages290
oapen.place.publicationBasingstoke
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Belfast - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast; Dublin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin; Ennis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis; Enniscorthy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniscorthy; Hampstead - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead; Ireland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland; Lunatic asylum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic_asylum; Mental disorder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder; Psychiatric hospital - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital
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