Catherine Cox

Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781526142610
• ISBN-10: 1526142619
• Artikelnr.: 55876550

Autorenporträt

Catherine Cox is Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland and Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Shaping the Irish asylum system 2. Expansion and demand 3.
Routes into the asylum 4. Insanity on display: Magistrates, doctors and the
family, 1840-70 5. Institutionalisation: Households and gender 6.
Workhouses and the Insane 7. Inside the asylums Conclusion Bibliography
Index