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3 Routes into the asylums

Abstract

Oonagh Walsh has looked at the legislation in the context of Connaught asylum district in county Galway, and has situated the extensive use of the legislation within the context of state concern for national security, land agitation and political disaffection. This chapter reconsiders these interpretations by assessing the evolution of the different certification procedures in Ireland, and the negotiations that surrounded the use of each procedure. The principle of legal certification of pauper lunatics was introduced to Ireland in the eighteenth century under vagrancy and prison legislation. Changes to the frameworks regulating ordinary and dangerous lunatic certification procedures and the concomitant development of medical certificates indicate that from the late 1840s medical evidence was provided during most certification procedures. Certification 'divided the sane from the insane' and represented 'the crucible in which medical approaches to insanity were mixed with lay ideas of insanity'.

Abstract

Oonagh Walsh has looked at the legislation in the context of Connaught asylum district in county Galway, and has situated the extensive use of the legislation within the context of state concern for national security, land agitation and political disaffection. This chapter reconsiders these interpretations by assessing the evolution of the different certification procedures in Ireland, and the negotiations that surrounded the use of each procedure. The principle of legal certification of pauper lunatics was introduced to Ireland in the eighteenth century under vagrancy and prison legislation. Changes to the frameworks regulating ordinary and dangerous lunatic certification procedures and the concomitant development of medical certificates indicate that from the late 1840s medical evidence was provided during most certification procedures. Certification 'divided the sane from the insane' and represented 'the crucible in which medical approaches to insanity were mixed with lay ideas of insanity'.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vi
  4. List of tables viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. Abbreviations x
  7. Introduction xi
  8. 1 Shaping the Irish asylum system 1
  9. 2 Expansion and demand 34
  10. 3 Routes into the asylums 73
  11. 4 Insanity on display 97
  12. 5 Households and institutionalisation 133
  13. 6 Workhouses and the mentally ill 169
  14. 7 Inside the asylums 195
  15. 8 Conclusion 240
  16. Select bibliography 245
  17. Index 267
Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526129840.00010

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vi
  4. List of tables viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. Abbreviations x
  7. Introduction xi
  8. 1 Shaping the Irish asylum system 1
  9. 2 Expansion and demand 34
  10. 3 Routes into the asylums 73
  11. 4 Insanity on display 97
  12. 5 Households and institutionalisation 133
  13. 6 Workhouses and the mentally ill 169
  14. 7 Inside the asylums 195
  15. 8 Conclusion 240
  16. Select bibliography 245
  17. Index 267
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