Disorder Contained

Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900

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Cox, Catherine
Marland, Hilary
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English
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Abstract
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90970
Keywords
history of medicine; history of crime and punishment; mental health; prison studies; modern British and Irish history
DOI
10.1017/9781108993586
ISBN
9781108993586, 9781108834551
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Cambridge University Press
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2022
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Social Sciences,
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History
General and world history
European history
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