Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Catherine, 1970-

Luddy, Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Ireland--History.

Medicine.

Medical care--Ireland--History.

Medical care.

Delivery of Health Care--history.

History.

Ireland.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Social Conditions--history.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care--history.

Ireland.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Social Conditions--history.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in 18th century Ireland to the treatment of influenza in 20th-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.

Contents:

(Publisher-supplied data) 1 'Bleeding, vomiting and purging': the medical response to ill-health in eighteenth- century Ireland / James Kelly

2 General practice and coroners' practice: medico-legal work and the Irish medical profession, c. 1830 - c. 1890 / Michael J. Clark

3 Access and authority: the medical dispensary service in post-Famine Ireland / Catherine Cox

4 Suicide and insanity in post-famine Ireland / Georgina Laragy

5 Psychiatry and the fate of women who killed infants and young children, 1850-1900 / Pauline M. Prior

6 Science, politics and the Irish literary revival: Reassessing 'Dr Sigerson' as polymath and public intellectual / James McGeachie

7 'This revived old plague': coping with flu / Caitríona Foley

8 'Half mad at the time': unmarried mothers and infanticide in Ireland, 1922-1950 / Clíona Rattigan

9 Venereal disease in interwar Northern Ireland / Leanne McCormick

10 Moral prescription: the Irish medical profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the prohibition of birth control in twentieth-century Ireland / L. Earner-Byrne

11 Death and disease in independent Ireland, c. 1920-1970: a research agenda / Mary E. Daly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230535862

0230535860

OCLC:

632079312

Publisher Number:

99942536260