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. " INDICE: 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 LiteraryRevival: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-53586-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés