[Sex and seclusion, class and custody] : : [perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry] / / [by Anne Digby].

• Superior document: Clio medica ; 73
• VerfasserIn: Digby, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2003]
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 73.; Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages) :; illustrations.

This innovative 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, econo...

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors / Anne Digby
• 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
• Index of People and Places / Anne Digby
• Index of Subjects / Anne Digby.