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Growing pains : childhood illness in Ireland 1750-1950 /
Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidden. Spanning two centuries, Growing Pains is the first history of Ireland's unique social, cultural, and political responses to safeguar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kildare, Ireland :
Irish Academic Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidden. Spanning two centuries, Growing Pains is the first history of Ireland's unique social, cultural, and political responses to safeguarding childhood health and treating physically, psychologically, and socially vulnerable children. The book also investigates medical management in the home, hospitals, reformatories, industrial schools, and workhouses - places where treatments ranged from the unorthodox to the experimental. Growing Pa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780716532057 0716532050 0716531607 9780716531609 |