The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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,...

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Main Author:	Mauger, Alice
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Nature 2021
Subjects:	public asylum voluntary asylum private asylum insanity mental health costs healthcare Ireland nineteenth century Belfast Dublin Ennis Enniscorthy Hampstead Lunatic asylum Psychiatric hospital thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services::MBPK Mental health services
Online Access:	1001538
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