Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) |
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Irish studies |
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Irish studies.
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Contents |
Introduction / Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh -- "I Was Right Glad to Be Rid of It" : dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- Women and Tuberculosis in Ireland / Greta Jones -- Infant and Child Mortality in Dublin a Century Ago / Cormac Ó Gráda -- Cure or Custody : therapeutic philosophy at the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum / Oonagh Walsh -- Gender and Criminal Lunacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Pauline Prior -- Between Habitual Drunkards and Alcoholics : inebriate women and reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919 / Elizabeth Malcolm -- Managing Midwifery in Dublin : practice and practitioners, 1700-1800 / Philomena Gorey -- Lady Dudley's District Nursing Scheme and the Congested Districts Board, 1903-1923 / Ciara Breathnach -- "The Wages of Sin Is Death" : lock hospitals, venereal disease, and gender in prefamine Ireland / Laurence M. Geary -- "Sickness," gender, and National Health Insurance in Ireland, 1920s to 1940s / Mel Cousins -- "A perpetual nightmare" : women, fertility control, the Irish State, and the 1935 ban on contraceptives / Sandra McAvoy -- "A probably source of infection" : the limitations of venereal disease policy, 1943-1951 / Susannah Riordan -- Prophylactics and prejudice : venereal diseases in Northern Ireland during the Second World War / Leanne McCormick |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Medicine -- Ireland -- History
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Medical care -- Ireland -- History
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ireland -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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History of Medicine
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Delivery of Health Care -- history
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Health Policy -- history
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Interpersonal Relations -- history
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Women's Health -- history
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history of medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland.
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Medical care
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Medicine
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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SUBJECT |
Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063445
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Ireland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007494 |
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Ireland
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Preston, Margaret H. (Margaret Helen), editor.
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Ó hÓgartaigh, Margaret, editor.
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LC no. |
2012038520 |
ISBN |
9780815651963 |
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0815651961 |
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0815632711 |
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9780815632719 |
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