Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Fools and Mad:

A History of the Insane in Ireland
Front Cover
0 Reviews
Institute of Public Administration, 1986 - Medical - 255 pages

From inside the book

 

91 pages matching Joseph Robins Fools and Mad in this book

Where's the rest of this book?

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

FOOLPROOF
FOOLPROOF
Dianne G. Pugh
Snippet view - 1998
Moments that changed us
Moments that changed us
Colum Kenny
Snippet view - 2005
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
Mark Finnane
No preview available - 1981
All related books »

Contents

Foreword
1
Protectionand Persecution
14
Fools Mad and Jonathan Swift
42
Copyright

10 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

accommodation administration admission appointed Armagh associated asylum doctors asylum system attendants became Belfast believed centres chief secretary Clonmel commission commissioners concerned considerable Cork criminal lunatic described developed district asylums district lunatic asylums doctors Dr Steevens Dublin House Dundrum early established eventually evidence fool given governors Health house of industry idiots and imbeciles influence inmates insane insane persons inspectors of lunacy institutions Irish asylum jails John Jonathan Swift later legislation Limerick London Lord lord-lieutenant Lunatic asylums Ireland madness Maryborough medical superintendent ment mental hospital mental illness mentally handicapped moral treatment Mullingar nineteenth century Northern Ireland Nugent nurses Omagh origin parliament patients pauper period poor law population prison private asylums Protestant provisions psychiatric reform regard religious Richmond asylum Royal Sligo social St Patrick's Hospital staff Swift visiting physician witchcraft workhouses wrote

References to this book

From other books

Irish geography: bulletin of the Geographical Society of Ireland
Irish geography: bulletin of the Geographical Society of Ireland, Volumes 28-29

No preview available - 1995
Becoming conspicuous: Irish travellers, society and the state, 1922-70
Becoming conspicuous: Irish travellers, society and the state, 1922-70
Aoife Bhreatnach
Snippet view - 2006
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

BIOMED-MEROPE* project: service provision for adults with ...
G Holt, H Costello, N Bouras, S Diareme, J Hillery, S Moss, C Rodriguez-Blazquez, L Salvador, J ...
Family Views of the Quality of Residential Supports
Patricia Noonan Walsh, Christine Linehan, John Hillery, Joe Durkan, Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton ... - 2001 - Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
The prevalence of schizophrenia in three counties in Ireland
M Ni Nuallain, A O'Hare, D Walsh - 1990 - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Meanings of madness: a literature review
B CASEY, A LONG - 2003 - Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
All Scholar search results »

Bibliographic information

QR code for Fools and Mad
TitleFools and Mad: A History of the Insane in Ireland
AuthorJoseph Robins
Editionillustrated
PublisherInstitute of Public Administration, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Aug 2008
ISBN0906980461, 9780906980460
Length255 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Health Care Delivery
Political Science / General
Psychology / Mental Illness
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan