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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2004.
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| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
73. Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gender and class in the historiography of British and Irish psychiatry / Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby
- Class, gender and madness in eighteenth-century Scotland / Robert Allan Houston
- Gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland / Oonagh Walsh
- Class, gender and insanity in nineteenth-century Wales / Pamela Michael
- "Embarrassed circumstances": gender, poverty, and insanity in the West Riding of England in the early-Victorian years / Marjorie Levine-Clark
- Delusions of gender?: lay identification and clinical diagnosis of insanity in Victorian England / David Wright
- Sex and sensibility in cultural history: the English governess and the lunatic asylum, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling
- The female patient experience in two late-nineteenth-century Surrey asylums / Anne Shepherd
- A class apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910 / Lorraine Walsh
- "A menace to the good of society": class, fertility, and the feeble-minded in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson
- Class and gender in twentieth-century British psychiatry: shell-shock and psychopathic disorder / Joan Busfield.