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The Tukes of York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Caomhghin S Breathnach
Caomhghin S Breathnach*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University College Dublin, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

At the instigation of William Tuke the York Retreat was built in 1794 by the Society of Friends. From its opening in 1796 until 1845 its management was in the hands of lay administrators, and the moral treatment of insanity which was the creation of George Jepson between 1797 and 1823 became a model of its kind. The great tradition thus established was continued by William's grandson, Samuel Tuke, and Samuel's son Daniel Hack Tuke. Daniel's older brother James is better known to Irish history for his philanthropy during Black '47 which is still warmly embedded in folk memory in the West of Ireland.

Keywords

TukeJepsonYork RetreatMoral treatment
Type
Historical
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 77 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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