Despite emancipationist rhetoric, asylum abolition was a cost-cutting exercise that has left us with a coercive and carceral system of care. Barbara Taylor on the new edition of Peter Barham’s ‘Closing the Asylum’.
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‘A Descent into Hell’: Ireland, the Intellectually Disabled and the Psychiatric Hospital System
David Kilgannon brings a historical perspective to Ireland’s treatment of the intellectually disabled.
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