Description
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers.
Trade ReviewThis volume injects some overdue energy into this important topic. It is meticulously researched, well written and offers scholars a number of research avenues worth pursuing, but also a rich ‘Bibliographical Index’ which alone could generate new projects and findings. Even without this valuable 37-page section, this book would be the most comprehensive study of women medical professionals in Ireland. It should easily find a place on medical history reading lists, but would be a worthy addition to broader courses on women’s history and the history of education.
Interesting take on women’s history in Ireland.
‘Kelly has achieved a lot in her first book and offers promising scope for future research about medical women in Ireland after 1922. Additionally, she shows that statistical work needs to be done to unearth the backgrounds and professional lives of men medical graduates in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a glittering research area yet to be mined.’
Vanessa Witton, Sydney, Health and history, 19/1 2017
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Debates surrounding women’s admission to the medical profession
2. The admission of women to the KQCPI and Irish medical schools
3. Becoming a medical student
4. Women’s experiences of Irish medical education
5. Careers and opportunities
6. Trends in the careers of Irish women doctors: emigration, marriage and the First World War
7. Medical lives: case-studies of five Irish women medical graduates
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Methodology
Appendix 2: Biographical index
Appendix 3: Additional tables
Index
