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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/517.9781909646650

Number of pages: 292

Publication date: 23 January 2015

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Healthcare in Ireland and Britain 1850-1970: Voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives

Donnacha Sean Lucey (Editor), Virginia Crossman (Editor)

Series: IHR Conference Series

Published in association with: Institute of Historical Research

This volume explores developments in health and social care in Ireland and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central objectives are to highlight the role of voluntarism in healthcare, to examine healthcare in local and regional contexts, and to provide comparative perspectives. The collection is based on two interconnected and overlapping research themes: voluntarism and healthcare, and regionalism/localism and healthcare. It includes two synoptic overviews by leading authorities in the field, and ten case studies focusing on particular aspects of voluntary and/or regional healthcare in Ireland and Britain.

Contents

Introduction

Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman

I. Historiographical directions

1 ‘Voluntarism’ in English health and welfare: visions of history

Martin Gorsky

2 Healthcare systems in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the national, international and sub-national contexts

John Stewart

II. Voluntary hospital provision

3 Paying for health: comparative perspectives on patient payment and contributions for hospital provision in Ireland

Donnacha Seán Lucey and George Campbell Gosling

4 ‘Why have a Catholic Hospital at all?’ The Mater Infirmorum Hospital Belfast and the state, 1883–1972

Peter Martin

5 Cottage hospitals and communities in rural East Devon, 1919–39

Julia Neville

III. Healthcare and the mixed economy

6 The mixed economy of care in the South Wales coalfield, c.1850–1950

Steven Thompson

7 ‘… it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here’: religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890–1904

Ciara Breathnach

8 To ‘solve the darkest Social Problems of our time’: the Church of Scotland’s entry into the British matrix of health and welfare provision, c.1880–1914

Janet Greenlees

IV. Public health, voluntarism and local government

9 Feverish activity: Dublin City Council and the smallpox outbreak of 1902–3 Ciarán Wallace

10 Influenza: the Irish Local Government Board’s last great crisis

Ida Milne

11 The roots of regionalism: municipal medicine from the Local Government Board to the Dawson Report

Sally Sheard

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Donnacha Sean Lucey (Editor)

Virginia Crossman (Editor)

Subject: British and Irish History, History

BISAC codes: HIS015000, HIS018000

Thema codes: NHD

Keywords: British healthcare system, Catholic Church, Edwardian era, Irish hospitals, N.H.S., Nation -building, Poor Law, Voluntary hospitals, Workhouses, public health