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Book/Printed Material The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care

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Title

  • The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care

Summary

  • This 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.

Names

  • Mauger, Alice. author.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Contents

  • 1 . Introduction -- 2. The Non-Pauper Insane: Private, Voluntary and State Concerns -- 3. An Institutional Marketplace -- 4. 'A Considerable Degree removed from Pauperism?': The Social Profile of Fee-Paying Patients -- 5. 'The Evil Effects of Mental Strain and Overwork': Employment, Gender and Insanity -- 6. 'A Great Source of Amusement': Work Therapy and Recreation -- 7. Respect and Respectability: The Treatment and Expectations of Fee-Paying Patients -- 8. Conclusion.

Headings

  • -  Great Britain-History
  • -  History, Modern
  • -  Medicine-History
  • -  Psychiatry
  • -  Social history
  • -  History of Britain and Ireland
  • -  History of Medicine
  • -  Modern History
  • -  Social History

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  History (R0) (SpringerNature-43722)
  • -  History (SpringerNature-41172)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XVI, 281 pages 5 illustrations)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019742263

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Mauger, Alice. Author. The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742263/.

APA citation style:

Mauger, A. A. (2018) The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742263/.

MLA citation style:

Mauger, Alice. Author. The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742263/>.