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Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914-45 / edited by David Durnin, Ian Miller

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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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1 online resource : maps (black and white).
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Durnin, David and Miller, Ian, 1980-
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In English.
Contents
Introduction -- 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 Index.
Summary
A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
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9781526108234 (electronic bk.)
1526108232 (electronic bk.)
9781526108227 (electronic bk.)
1526108224 (electronic bk.)
9780719097850 (hbk.)
9781526121714 (paperback)
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