Book ID: CBB000771248

Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (2004)

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Andrews, Jonathan (Editor)
Digby, Anne (Editor)


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Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 338 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Includes Chapters

Chapter Wright, David (2004) Delusions of Gender? Lay Identification and Clinical Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 149). unapi

Chapter Shepherd, Anne (2004) The Female Patient Experience in Two Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 223). unapi

Chapter Jackson, Mark (2004) “A Menace to the Good of Society”: Class, Fertility, and the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 271). unapi

Chapter Busfield, Joan (2004) Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry: Shell-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 295). unapi

Chapter Houston, Robert Allan (2004) Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Walsh, Oonagh (2004) Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Levine-Clark, Marjorie (2004) “Embarrassed Circumstances”: Gender, Poverty, and Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 123). unapi

Chapter Melling, Joseph (2004) Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 177). unapi

Chapter Walsh, Lorraine (2004) A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 249). unapi

Chapter Andrews, Jonathan; Digby, Anne (2004) Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 7). unapi

Chapter Michael, Pamela (2004) Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales. In: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (p. 95). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Peschier, Diana
Sposini, Filippo Maria
Campbell, Morag Allan
hÓgartaigh, Margaret Ó
Preston, Margaret H.
Hewitt, Jessie
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Social Studies of Science
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Social History
Health and History
French Historical Studies
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
Syracuse University Press
Routledge
Oxford University Press
Manchester University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and gender
Psychiatric hospitals
Social class
Medicine
People
Freud, Sigmund
Charcot, Jean Martin
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François
Bleuler, Eugen
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Zurich (Switzerland)
London (England)
Scotland
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