Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
  • "I Was Right Glad to Be Rid of It" : dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly
  • Women and Tuberculosis in Ireland / Greta Jones
  • Infant and Child Mortality in Dublin a Century Ago / Cormac Ó Gráda
  • Cure or Custody : therapeutic philosophy at the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum / Oonagh Walsh
  • Gender and Criminal Lunacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Pauline Prior
  • Between Habitual Drunkards and Alcoholics : inebriate women and reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919 / Elizabeth Malcolm
  • Managing Midwifery in Dublin : practice and practitioners, 1700-1800 / Philomena Gorey
  • Lady Dudley's District Nursing Scheme and the Congested Districts Board, 1903-1923 / Ciara Breathnach
  • "The Wages of Sin Is Death" : lock hospitals, venereal disease, and gender in prefamine Ireland / Laurence M. Geary
  • "Sickness," gender, and National Health Insurance in Ireland, 1920s to 1940s / Mel Cousins
  • "A perpetual nightmare" : women, fertility control, the Irish State, and the 1935 ban on contraceptives / Sandra McAvoy
  • "A probably source of infection" : the limitations of venereal disease policy, 1943-1951 / Susannah Riordan
  • Prophylactics and prejudice : venereal diseases in Northern Ireland during the Second World War / Leanne McCormick.