Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970 [electronic resource] /
Cox, C.editor.
Luddy, M.editor.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
(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 engagement : 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.
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.
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