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The cost of insanity in Nineteenth-Century Irelandpublic, voluntary and private asylum care /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The cost of insanity in Nineteenth-Century Irelandby Alice Mauger.
Reminder of title:	public, voluntary and private asylum care /
Author:	Mauger, Alice.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xvi, 281 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	People with mental disabilitiesInstitutional care19th century.Ireland
Subject:	IrelandHistory17th century.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3
ISBN:	9783319652443$q(electronic bk.)

The cost of insanity in Nineteenth-Century Irelandpublic, voluntary and private asylum care /
Mauger, Alice.

The cost of insanity in Nineteenth-Century Irelandpublic, voluntary and private asylum care /[electronic resource] :by Alice Mauger. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xvi, 281 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Mental health in historical perspective. - Mental health in historical perspective..

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.

Open access.

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.

ISBN: 9783319652443$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

803584
People with mental disabilities
--Institutional care--Ireland--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391959
Ireland
--History--17th century.

LC Class. No.: HV3008.I73 / M38 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 362.210941509034

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