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The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland [electronic resource] : Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care / by Alice Mauger.

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoTextoSeries Mental Health in Historical PerspectiveEditor: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Descripción: XVI, 281 p. 5 illus. online resourceTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319652443
Tema(s): Formatos físicos adicionales: Printed edition:: Sin títuloClasificación CDD:
  • 941 23
Clasificación LoC:
  • DA1-DA995
Recursos en línea:
Contenidos:
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.
En: Springer eBooksResumen: 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.
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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.

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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.