'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.
'Irish Insanity 1800-2000' charts and explains the rise and demise of asylums and mental hospitals in Ireland between 1800 and 2000. It definitively d...
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided a convenient form of institutional intervention to manage a host of social problems.
Irish Insanity identifies the long-term trends in institutional residency through the development of a detailed empirical data set, based on an analysis of original copies of the...
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the tw...
