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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Basingstoke
Springer Nature
2017
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