Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. Zusammenfassung Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Shaping the Irish asylum system 2. Expansion and demand 3. Routes into the asylum 4. Insanity on display: Magistrates, doctors and the family, 1840-705. Institutionalisation: Households and gender 6. Workhouses and the Insane 7. Inside the asylums Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Cox, Cox Catherine
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780719075032
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7503-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous