Cox Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2984-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cox Catherine:
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 DublinCatherine 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