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)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Subjects:	Great Britain-History. Social history. Psychiatry. Medicine-History. History, Modern.
ISBN:	9783319652443
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