Book of Donmon Teith

This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness

An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why wer

This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it exp

Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women,

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonia