Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900

Author:   Catherine Cox
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 July 2019
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Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900


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Author:   Catherine Cox
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781526142610


ISBN 10:   1526142619
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

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'NegotiatingInsanity is an insightful analysis and deserves to bewidely read, not alone by upcoming academics in the field of research oninsanity, but also because it is an invaluable addition to the scholarship ofsocial, medical, psychiatric and historical research in Ireland and Britain.' TrionaWaters, Mary Immaculate College, Irish Economic and Social History 44 (1) -- .


'NegotiatingInsanity is an insightful analysis and deserves to bewidely read, not alone by upcoming academics in the field of research oninsanity, but also because it is an invaluable addition to the scholarship ofsocial, medical, psychiatric and historical research in Ireland and Britain.' TrionaWaters, Mary Immaculate College, Irish Economic and Social History 44 (1) -- .


‘NegotiatingInsanity is an insightful analysis and deserves to bewidely read, not alone by upcoming academics in the field of research oninsanity, but also because it is an invaluable addition to the scholarship ofsocial, medical, psychiatric and historical research in Ireland and Britain.’ TrionaWaters, Mary Immaculate College, Irish Economic and Social History 44 (1) -- .


Author Information

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

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