Conveners: Hilary Marland (University of Warwick) and Catherine Cox (University College Dublin)
12 February 2016. Warwick Business School, London Campus, Eastern Lecture Theatre, The Shard, London
Month: February 2016
Prisoners and Mental Illness in Prisons, 1850–2000
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
Mental breakdown was often attributed to the intrinsic mental weakness of the prison population …
Mental Illness and Juvenile Prisoners, 1850–2000
Fiachra Byrne
Focusing on the ‘disturbed’ child who exhibited a pathological pattern of behaviour in detention settings …
Management of Health and Disease, 1850–1950
Margaret Charleroy
The physician was responsible for determining the maximum physical stress each inmate could safely endure …
Exploring the history of prisoner health 