Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
Cox, CatherineAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
This text explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in 19th-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of protagonists' attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in 19th-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of protagonists' attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane.
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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Disabled Persons
Forensic Psychiatry
Health Services
Hospitals, Special
History, Modern 1601-
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Jurisprudence
Hospitals
History
Persons
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychiatry
Humanities
Social Control, Formal
Health Care
Behavioral Sciences
Named Groups
Health Facilities
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Hospitals, Psychiatric
History, 19th Century
Commitment of Mentally Ill
Mental Health Services
Mentally Ill Persons
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Mental Illness Prevention