Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750–1970

1. Introduction
Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy

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

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

4. Access and Engagement: The Medical Dispensary Service in Post-Famine Ireland
Catherine Cox

5. Suicide and Insanity in Post-Famine Ireland
Georgina Laragy

6. Psychiatry and the Fate of Women Who Killed Infants and Young Children, 1850–1900
Pauline M. Prior

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

8. ‘This Revived Old Plague’1: Coping with Flu
Caitríona Foley

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

10. Venereal Disease in Interwar Northern Ireland
Leanne McCormick

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

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

Keywords: History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medicine, History of Science, Modern History