EAN: 9783319879833

MENTAL HEALTH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THE C...

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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