Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750–1970

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
‘Bleeding, vomiting and purging’: The Medical Response to Ill-health in Eighteenth-century Ireland....Pages 13-36
General Practice and Coroners’ Practice: Medico-legal Work and the Irish Medical Profession, c. 1830–c. 1890....Pages 37-56
Access and Engagement: The Medical Dispensary Service in Post-Famine Ireland....Pages 57-78
Suicide and Insanity in Post-Famine Ireland....Pages 79-91
Psychiatry and the Fate of Women Who Killed Infants and Young Children, 1850–1900....Pages 92-112
Science, Politics and the Irish Literary Revival: Reassessing ‘Dr Sigerson’ as Polymath and Public Intellectual....Pages 113-140
‘This Revived Old Plague’1: Coping with Flu....Pages 141-167
‘Half mad at the time’: Unmarried Mothers and Infanticide in Ireland, 1922–1950....Pages 168-190
Venereal Disease in Interwar Northern Ireland....Pages 191-206
Moral Prescription: The Irish Medical Profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the Prohibition of Birth Control in Twentieth-century Ireland....Pages 207-228
Death and Disease in Independent Ireland, c. 1920–1970: A Research Agenda....Pages 229-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-258