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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.
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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