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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
    sub title: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
  name:
    name part: Mauger, Alice
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XVI, 281 pages 5 illustrations)
  abstract: 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 gainches The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.
  table of contents: 1 . Introduction -- 2. The Non-Pauper Insane: Private, Voluntary and State Concerns -- 3. An Institutional Marketplace -- 4. A Considerable Degree removed from Pauperism?': The Social Profile of Fee-Paying Patients -- 5. The Evil Effects of Mental Strain and Overwork': Employment, Gender and Insanity -- 6. A Great Source of Amusement': Work Therapy and Recreation -- 7. Respect and Respectability: The Treatment and Expectations of Fee-Paying Patients -- 8. Conclusion.
  note: by Alice Mauger.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Britain and Ireland
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  classification: 941
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mental health in historical perspective
  identifier: 9783319652443
  identifier: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65244-3
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 171221
    record change date: 20210728135921.0
    record identifier: in00003992859