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

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‘NegotiatingInsanity is an insightful analysis and deserves to bewidely read, not alone by upcoming academics in the field of research oninsanity, but also because it is an invaluable addition to the scholarship ofsocial, medical, psychiatric and historical research in Ireland and Britain.’

TrionaWaters, Mary Immaculate College, Irish Economic and Social History 44 (1)

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Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719075032, 978-0719075032
      ISBN10: 0719075033

      Description

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

      Trade Review

      ‘NegotiatingInsanity is an insightful analysis and deserves to bewidely read, not alone by upcoming academics in the field of research oninsanity, but also because it is an invaluable addition to the scholarship ofsocial, medical, psychiatric and historical research in Ireland and Britain.’

      TrionaWaters, Mary Immaculate College, Irish Economic and Social History 44 (1)

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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