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