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oapen-20.500.12657-284192021-11-12T15:58:15Z The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Mauger, Alice public asylum voluntary asylum private asylum insanity mental health costs healthcare Ireland nineteenth century Belfast Dublin Ennis Enniscorthy Hampstead Lunatic asylum Psychiatric hospital bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services::MBPK Mental health services 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. 2018-09-24 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:22:27Z 2020-04-01T12:22:27Z 2017 book 1001538 OCN: 1076791127 9783319652443 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28419 eng Mental Health in Historical Perspective application/pdf n/a Bookshelf_NBK481811.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3 10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319652443 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 290 Basingstoke Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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.
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