TY - BOOK ID - 138211375 TI - Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900 PY - 2012 SN - 1781704767 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hospitals, Psychiatric KW - Commitment of Mentally Ill KW - Mental Health Services KW - Mentally Ill Persons KW - History, 19th Century. KW - history. KW - history. KW - history. KW - history. KW - Ireland. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138211375 AB - This text explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in 19th-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of protagonists' attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane. ER -