TY - BOOK ID - 32076061 TI - The cost of insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland : public, voluntary and private asylum aare PY - 2018 SN - 3319652443 3319652435 9783319652443 PB - Houndmills [England]: Palgrave MacMillan, DB - UniCat KW - History. KW - History, Modern. KW - Great Britain KW - Social history. KW - Psychiatry. KW - Medicine KW - History of Britain and Ireland. KW - Social History. KW - History of Medicine. KW - Modern History. KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Mental health KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - World history KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Great Britain-History. KW - Medicine. KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Health Workforce KW - England KW - Great Britain—History. KW - Medicine—History. KW - public asylum KW - voluntary asylum KW - private asylum KW - insanity KW - mental health KW - costs KW - healthcare KW - Ireland KW - nineteenth century KW - Belfast KW - Dublin KW - Ennis KW - Enniscorthy KW - Hampstead KW - Lunatic asylum KW - Psychiatric hospital UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076061 AB - 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. ER -