The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care /

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,...

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Main Author:	Mauger, Alice (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Series:	Mental health in historical perspective.
Subjects:	History. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Medicine. Modern History. Psychiatry. Social History. History, Modern. Medicine > History. Social history. Great Britain > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book