{"product_id":"strangling-angel-diphtheria-and-childhood-immunization-in-ireland-9781800856585","title":"Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History. This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care.  An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews\u003ci\u003e'Strangling Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is well written, interesting and thoroughly researched, drawing on a variety of new primary sources. It is not a history of immunisation in the British Isles, but differences in approach between progressive Ireland and Britain are highlighted. It will be useful to medical, political and social historians with an interest in infections and their prevention.'\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dibb, British Society for the History of Medicine\u003cbr\u003e'The documentary research in this book cannot be faulted. It includes painstaking examinations of wide-ranging archival materials as well as making extensive use of contemporary governmental, popular and scientific publications. ... Altogether, this is a promising first book from a talented scholar.' \u003cbr\u003eOisín Wall,\u003ci\u003e Social History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘Michael Dwyer charts the history of diphtheria in Ireland with a strong focus on the controversies that arose when immunization was introduced in the early twentieth century […] \u003ci\u003eStrangling Angel \u003c\/i\u003eis among the most significant medical history monographs that has emerged from Ireland in recent years.'\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIan Miller, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘Dwyer’s work comfortably takes its place among the timely and burgeoning international literature on the history of vaccination and immunization, along with that devoted to the broader development of public health policy and programs.'\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJ.T.H. Connor, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Bulletin of Medical History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Dwyer’s account of the history of diphtheria in Ireland not only provides us with a documented history of the disease for the island of Ireland but also highlights the issues that still surrounded the disease and its prevention.'\u003cbr\u003eAnne Hardy, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eStrangling Angel\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to the history of health and medicine in Ireland. It will also be of interest to social historians concerned with the treatment of children in historical state-run institutions... Starting from a place in which diphtheria remained largely concealed in the historical record, \u003ci\u003eStrangling Angel \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the disease to centre stage.'Alice Mauger, \u003ci\u003eIrish Social and Economic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eStrangling Angel \u003c\/i\u003ewon the NUI prize in history... Although it was formally an academic work, Dwyer writes in a clear prose, so a casual reader who is willing to put in the effort will be rewarded.' \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Joe Culley, \u003ci\u003eHistory Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Aetiology of Diphtheria in Pre-independence Ireland 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe ‘Strangling Angel’ in Ireland 16\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eKnow Thine Enemy 27\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Diphtheria ‘Arrives’ 32\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDiphtheria in Cork City 36\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePublic Health Reform in the Irish Free State 41\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Antitoxin as an\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnti-diphtheria Prophylactic 45\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in the Irish Free State 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnti-diphtheria Immunization in Dublin 63\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJ. C. Saunders Anti-diphtheria Intervention in Cork City 70\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Developing Burroughs Wellcome Alum-Toxoid 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVaccine Trials in Cork City 82\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFurther Vaccine Trials 90\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Ring College Immunization Disaster 101\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInquest at Ring 110\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreparing for Battle 120\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 O’Cionnfaola v. the Wellcome Foundation and Daniel McCarthy 126\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAfter Ring 134\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Towards a National Immunization Programme 144\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDublin 153\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEnd of an Epidemic 163\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion 170\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBibliography 178\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex 195\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042766848343,"sku":"9781800856585","price":31.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800856585.jpg?v=1750955546","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strangling-angel-diphtheria-and-childhood-immunization-in-ireland-9781800856585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}