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

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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, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9042011866

ISBN13:9789042011861

Release Date:January 2003

Publisher:Brill

Length:348 Pages

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