Cultures of care in Irish medical history : 1750-1970

This book examines medical care in Ireland from 1750-1950, through the prisms of state provision, professionalisation and the experiences of health and illness. It includes analyses and discussions of quacks and cures, contraception, the history of suicide, the role of the coroners’ courts, and the treatment of criminal lunatics. 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 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. Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1950 interrogates the practices and cultures of medical care in Ireland from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Historians examine health in Ireland through the prisms of state provision, professionalisation and the experiences of health and illness. Individual essays include analyses of quacks and cures; an exploration of contraception, discussions on the history of suicide, patients' attitudes to medical practitioners; the role of the coroners' courts, and the treatment of criminal lunatics. Personal experience of professional health care is explored in an examination of the influenza epidemic, 1918-19, and infanticide in Ireland Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in 18th century Ireland to the treatment of influenza in 20th-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries. -- Source other than Library of Congress