Cox, Catherine (Editor)
LUDDY, MARIA (Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan
Physical Details: xii + 258 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English
This book examines medical care in Ireland from 1750-1950, through the prisms of state provision, professionalisation and the experiences of health and illness. It includes analyses and discussions of quacks and cures, contraception, the history of suicide, the role of the coroners' courts, and the treatment of criminal lunatics.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Geary, Laurence M. (2012) Review of "Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970". Medical History (pp. 391-392).
Chapter Kelly, James (2010) “Bleeding, Vomiting and Purging”: The Medical Response to Ill-Health in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 13).
Chapter Clark, Michael J. (2010) General Practice and Coroners' Practice: Medico-legal Work and the Irish Medical Profession, c. 1830--c. 1890. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 37).
Chapter Cox, Catherine (2010) Access and Engagement: The Medical Dispensary Service in Post-Famine Ireland. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 57).
Chapter Laragy, Georgina (2010) Suicide and Insanity in Post-Famine Ireland. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 79).
Chapter Prior, Pauline M. (2010) Psychiatry and the Fate of Women Who Killed Infants and Young Children, 1850--1900. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 92).
Chapter McGeachie, James (2010) Science, Politics and the Irish Literary Revival: Reassessing “Dr Sigerson” as Polymath and Public Intellectual. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 113).
Chapter Foley, Caitriona (2010) “This Revived Old Plague”: Coping with Flu. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 141).
Chapter Rattigan, Cliona (2010) “Half Mad at the Time”: Unmarried Mothers and Infanticide in Ireland, 1922--1950. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 168).
Chapter McCormick, Leanne (2010) Venereal Disease in Interwar Northern Ireland. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 191).
Chapter Earner-Byrne, Lindsey (2010) Moral Prescription: The Irish Medical Profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the Prohibition of Birth Control in Twentieth-Century Ireland. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 207).
Chapter Daly, Mary E. (2010) Death and Disease in Independent Ireland, c. 1920--1970: A Research Agenda. In: Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750--1970 (p. 229).
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