A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.

A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.

The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discov

Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and

Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of so