Description
Book SynopsisA wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - David Durnin and Ian Miller
Part 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 Mac Lellan
Part 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
Part 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 - Seán 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 - Seán 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
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