Cox / Luddy Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970

2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-30462-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, C.

Luddy, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL CLARK Visiting Lecturer, the Department of English Language and Literature, King's College London, UK

CATHERINE COX Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland

MARY E. DALY Principal, College of Arts and Celtic Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland

LINDSEY EARNER-BYRNE Lecturer in Modern Irish History, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland

CAITRÍONA FOLEY History PhD Graduate and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, University College Dublin, Ireland

JAMES KELLY Head of the History Department, St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland

GEORGINA LARAGY Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

MARIA LUDDY Professor of Modern Irish History, University of Warwick, UK

LEANNE MCCORMICK Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History, the University of Ulster, UK

JAMES MCGEACHIE Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Belfast, UK

PAULINE PRIOR Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, UK

CLÍONA RATTIGAN Teaching Fellow, the University of Warwick, UK