Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Bleeding, vomiting and purging’: The Medical Response to Ill-health in Eighteenth-century Ireland

Chapter 3 General Practice and Coroners’ Practice: Medico-legal Work and the Irish Medical Profession, c. 1830–c. 1890

Chapter 5 Suicide and Insanity in Post-Famine Ireland

Chapter 6 Psychiatry and the Fate of Women Who Killed Infants and Young Children, 1850–1900

Chapter 7 Science, Politics and the Irish Literary Revival: Reassessing ‘Dr Sigerson’ as Polymath and Public Intellectual

Chapter 8 ‘This Revived Old Plague’ 1 : Coping with Flu

Chapter 9 ‘Half mad at the time’: Unmarried Mothers and Infanticide in Ireland, 1922–1950

Chapter 10 Venereal Disease in Interwar Northern Ireland

Chapter 11 Moral Prescription: The Irish Medical Profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the Prohibition of Birth Control in Twentieth-century Ireland

Chapter 12 Death and Disease in Independent Ireland, c. 1920–1970: A Research Agenda