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

Chapters

• 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 THE MIXED ECONOMY
• 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