Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970

MICHAEL CLARK Visiting Lecturer, the Department of English Language and Literature, King's College London, UKCATHERINE COX Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, IrelandMARY E. DALY Principal, College of Arts and Celtic Studies, University College Dublin, IrelandLINDSEY EARNER-BYRNE Lecturer in Modern Irish History, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, IrelandCAITRÍONA FOLEY History PhD Graduate and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, University College Dublin, IrelandJAMES KELLY Head of the History Department, St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, IrelandGEORGINA LARAGY Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, IrelandMARIA LUDDY Professor of Modern Irish History, University of Warwick, UKLEANNE MCCORMICK Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History, the University of Ulster, UKJAMES MCGEACHIE Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Belfast, UKPAULINE PRIOR Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, UKCLÍONA RATTIGAN Teaching Fellow, the University of Warwick, UK

• 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

'...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