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Title Gender and medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950 / edited by Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
Edition 1st ed
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages)
Series Irish studies
Irish studies.
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
Medical care -- Ireland -- History
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ireland -- History
Medicine -- History.
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
History of Medicine
Delivery of Health Care -- history
Health Policy -- history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Interpersonal Relations -- history
Women's Health -- history
history of medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland.
Medical care
Medicine
Women -- Health and hygiene
SUBJECT Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063445
Ireland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007494
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Preston, Margaret H. (Margaret Helen), editor.
Ó hÓgartaigh, Margaret, editor.
LC no. 2012038520
ISBN 9780815651963
0815651961
0815632711
9780815632719