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

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

(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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.