Negotiating Insanity In The Southeast Of Ireland 18201900
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780719075032
Description: 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.