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Gender and medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950 / edited by Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh

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Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages).
Additional Creators
Preston, Margaret H. (Margaret Helen) and Ó hÓgartaigh, Margaret
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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.
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ISBN
9780815651963 (electronic bk.)
0815651961 (electronic bk.)
0815632711
9780815632719
9780815632719 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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