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Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914-45 /

This title explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Miller, Ian, 1980- (Editor ), Durnin, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Health and disease on the domestic front
  • 1. `Every human life is a national importance': the impact of the First World War on attitudes to maternal and infant health / Fionnuala Walsh
  • 2. The war and influenza: the impact of the First World War on the 1918
  • 19 influenza pandemic in Ulster / Patricia Marsh
  • 3. Food, the Emergency and the lower-class Irish body, c. 1939
  • 45 / Bryce Evans
  • 4. Alone among neutrals: Ireland's unique experience of tuberculosis during the Second World War / Anne MacLellan
  • pt. II Health and political unrest
  • 5. War on our doorstep: Temple Street Hospital and the 1916 Rising / Barry Kennerk
  • 6. Ireland's British Army doctors and the treatment of Irish nationalists, 1916
  • 23 / David Durnin
  • 7. The `report of a nightmare': hallucinating conflict in the political and personal frontiers of Ulster during the IRA border campaign of 1920
  • 22 / Fiachra Byrne
  • pt. III Institutions and medical personnel
  • 8. From front to home and back again: geographical networks of auxiliary medical care in the First World War / Ronan Foley
  • 9. Hope and experience: nurses from Belfast hospitals in the First World War / Sean Graffin
  • 10. War work on the home front: the Central Sphagnum Depot for Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1915
  • 19 / Clara Cullen
  • 11. On the brink of universalism: the Emergency Hospital Services in Second World War Northern Ireland / Sean Lucey
  • 12. Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922
  • 45 / Steven O'Connor
  • 13. Migrants, medics, matrons: exploring the spectrum of Irish immigrants in the wartime British health sector / Jennifer Redmond.