"Dyspepsia," "seduction" and "violent hysteria": reports, reforms and the Irish asylums of the 1850s - Kelly BD.

While many countries developed asylums for the mentally ill during the nineteenth century, Ireland's asylum system grew faster than those elsewhere, was larger in size and was slower to decline. This paper focuses on two reports central to this process in ...
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