The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)
by Alice Mauger
This focused historical study examines the cost of insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland through public, voluntary, and private asylum care. Alice Mauger places these different forms of provision within a wider mental health history, offering readers a clear account of institutional care during the nineteenth century.
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This book examines the cost of insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland through the history of asylum care.
It considers three forms of provision: public, voluntary, and private asylums.
The study places mental health care within its broader historical perspective.
It offers a focused account of how institutional care was organized and understood in nineteenth-century Ireland.
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