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

by Anne Digby and Jonathan Andrews

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