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Asylums, mental health care, and the Irish : historical studies, 1800-2010

Title
Asylums, mental health care, and the Irish : historical studies, 1800-2010 / edited by Pauline M. Prior.
Publication
Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors
Prior, Pauline
Description
xxxii, 352 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Asylums, mental health care and the Irish, 1800-2010
Subject
  • 1800-1999
  • Mental health services > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Mental health services > Ireland > History > 20th century
  • Mentally ill > Care > Ireland
  • Irish > Mental health services > History. > Foreign countries
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
  • Mental Health Services > history
  • Mentally Ill Persons
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Mental health
  • Mental health services
  • Mentally ill > Care
  • Geistig behinderter Mensch
  • Psychiatrische Versorgung
  • Ireland > Mental health
  • Ireland
  • Ireland
  • Irland
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The red flag over the asylum: the Monaghan asylum soviet of 1919 / Anton McCabe and Ciaran Mulholland -- Speedwell magazine: an insider view of Holywell Psychiatric Hospital, Antrim, 1959-1973 / Gillian McClelland -- Mental health services in Ireland, 1959-2010 / Dermot Walsh -- Voices of mental health service users -- poetry and prose -- Irish immigrants in a colonial asylum during the Austrialian gold rushes, 1848-1869 / Elizabeth Malcolm -- Transnational ties to home: Irish immigrants in New Zealand asylums, 1860-1926 / Angela McCarthy -- The 'Chaplaincy Question' at Belfast District Asylum, 1834-1870 / Pauline M. Prior & David V. Griffiths -- A mystery malady in an Irish asylum: the Richmond epidemic of the late nineteenth century / E. Margaret Crawford -- Tuberculosis in the nineteenth-century asylum: clinical cases from the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin / Brendan D. Kelly -- Overseeing the Irish Asylums: the Inspectorate in Lunacy, 1845-1921 / Pauline M. Prior -- A perfectly ordered establishment: Connaught District Lunatic Asylum (Ballinasloe) / Oonagh Walsh -- Voices of doctors and officials -- A theoretical exploration of institution-based mental care in Ireland / Damien Brennan -- Mental health law on the island of Ireland, 1800-2010 / Pauline M. Prior.
ISBN
  • 9780716531524
  • 0716531526
LCCN
2011279845
OCLC
  • ocn766317197
  • 766317197
  • SCSB-14650654
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library