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
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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