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Title Sex and seclusion, class, and custody : perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry / edited by Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby
Published [Leiden, Netherlands] : [Brill], [2016]
©[2003]

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations
Series Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 73
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 73.
Contents 1. Introduction : gender and class in the historiography of British and Irish psychiatry / Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby -- 2. Class, gender and madness in eighteenth-century Scotland / Robert Allan Houston -- 3. Gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland / Oonagh Walsh -- 4. Class, gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Wales / Pamela Michael -- 5. 'Embarrassed circumstances' : gender, poverty, and insanity in the West Riding of England in the early-Victorian years / Marjorie Levine-Clark -- 6. Delusions of gender? : lay identification and clinical diagnosis of insanity in Victorian England / David Wright -- 7. Sex and sensibility in cultural history : the English governess and the lunatic asylum, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling -- 8. female patient : experience in two late-nineteenth-century Surrey asylums / Anne Shepherd -- 9. class apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910 / Lorraine Walsh -- 10. 'A menace to the good of society' : class, fertility, and the feeble-minded in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson -- 11. Class and gender in twentieth-century British psychiatry : shell-shock and psychopathic disorder / Joan Busfield
Summary "This collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally ill. Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to the academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives."--Jacket
Notes Imprint from the publisher's Web site, viewed August 25, 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Sex differences (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Mental illness -- Sex factors -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Social psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Mental health policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Mental health policy -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
1800-1899.
Mental health policy
Mental illness -- Sex factors
Mental illness -- Social aspects
Sex differences (Psychology)
Social psychiatry
Great Britain
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- editor.
Digby, Anne, editor.
ISBN 9789004333598
9004333592