This book covers overall trends in patient numbers, an exploration of the development of mental health law in Ireland, and studies on individual hospitals – all of which provide incredible insight into times past and yet speak volumes about mental health in contemporary Irish society.

Topics include the famous nursing strike at Monaghan Asylum in 1919, when a red flag was raised over the building; extracts from Speedwell, a hospital newsletter, showing the social and sporting life at Holywell Hospital during the 1960s; an exploration of diseases such as beriberi and tuberculosis at Dundrum and the Richmond in the 1890s; the problems encountered by doctors in Ballinasloe Asylum as they tried to exert their authority over the Governors; and the experiences of Irish emigrants who found themselves in asylums in Australia and New Zealand.

The book also includes a discussion of mental health services in Ireland 1959–2010, the first time such a chronology has been published.

The editor, Pauline Prior, and the contributors, including Brendan Kelly, Dermot Walsh, Elizabeth Malcolm and E.M. Crawford, are well-known scholars within the disciplines of medicine, sociology and history, coming together for the first time to present an essential book on the history of mental health services in Ireland.

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ISBN/EAN 9781911024620
Author Edited by Pauline M. Prior
Publisher Irish Academic Press
Publication date 10 Feb 2017
Format Paperback
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Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish: 1800-2010

Edited by Pauline M. Prior
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A collection of studies on mental health services in Ireland, from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, this book includes a discussion of mental health services in Ireland from 1959 to 2010, the first time such a chronology has been published.

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