Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.
Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970
Table of contents
Introduction; C.Cox & M.Luddy 'Bleeding, vomiting and purging': the Medical Response to Ill-health in Eighteenth-century Ireland; J.Kelly General Practice and Coroners' Practice: Medico-legal work and the Irish Medical Profession, c.1830-90; M.J.Clark Access and Authority: the Medical Dispensary service in post-Famine Ireland; C.Cox Suicide and Insanity in post-Famine Ireland; G.Laraghy Psychiatry and the Fate of Women who Killed Infants and Young Children, 1850-1900; P.M.Prior Science, Politics and the Irish Literary Revival: Reassessing 'Dr Sigerson' as a Polymath and Public Intellectual; J.McGeachie 'This revived old plague': Coping with Flu; C.Foley 'Half mad at the time': Unmarried Mothers and Infanticide in Ireland, 1922-1950; C.Rattigan Venereal Disease in Interwar Northern Ireland; L.McCormick Moral Prescription: the Irish Medical Profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the Prohibition of Birth Control and in Twentieth-century Ireland; L.Earner-Byrne Death and Disease in Independent Ireland, c.1920-1970: a Research Agenda;; M.E.Daly Notes Index