Irish Insanity: 1800-2000

ISBN-13: 9780415522250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 172 str.

Damien Brennan

Opis

'Irish Insanity 1800-2000' charts and explains the rise and demise of asylums and mental hospitals in Ireland between 1800 and 2000. It definitively demonstrates that Ireland had the highest level of asylum usage internationally, arguing that a combination of social forces, rather than an 'epidemic of Irish insanity', underpinned this pattern of institutionalisation.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Theories of Irish Insanity  2. Irish Asylum Utilisation 1800–2000  3. The Irish Insanity ‘Epidemic’ 1800–1956  4. The Demise of Irish Insanity – 1956–2000  5. Conclusion.  Appendix 1: Tables of Data.  Bibliography

O autorze

Damien Brennan is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.