Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970

Author:   C. Cox ,  M. Luddy
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230535862


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   24 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   C. Cox ,  M. Luddy
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780230535862


ISBN 10:   0230535860
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   24 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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'...a rich collection of insightful essays...The collection is an excellent contribution to Irish medical history and what is particularly striking about it is that the majority of chapters are concerned with the experiences of ordinary patients and practitioners. Importantly, the volume is further evidence of scholarly movement away from the 'great men' tradition and instititutional histories of the past.' - Laura Kelly, National University of Ireland, Galway, Social History of Medicine


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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

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