The Cost Of Insanity In Nineteenth-century Ireland —— Public, Voluntary And Private Asylum Care

----- 19世纪爱尔兰的疯狂代价：公共、自愿与私人庇护

ISBN: 9783319652436 出版年：2018 页码：290 Mauger, Alice Springer

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.