Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970
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Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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
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