The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

1. Introduction
Alice Mauger

Part I. Governing Insanity

2. The Non-Pauper Insane: Private, Voluntary and State Concerns
Alice Mauger

3. An Institutional Marketplace
Alice Mauger

Part II. Understanding Insanity

4. ‘A Considerable Degree Removed from Pauperism’?: The Social Profile of Fee-Paying Patients
Alice Mauger

5. ‘The Evil Effects of Mental Strain and Overwork’: Employment, Gender and Insanity
Alice Mauger

6. ‘A Great Source of Amusement’: Work Therapy and Recreation
Alice Mauger

7. Respect and Respectability: The Treatment and Expectations of Fee-Paying Patients
Alice Mauger

Avainsanat: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, Modern History