Book Description
A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.
Author : Greta Jones
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : 9781859182307
A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.
Author : Greta Jones
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Disease
ISBN : 9781859181102
A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.
Author : C. Cox
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0230304621
Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.
Author : James Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317112903
The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discoveries of Harvey and Jenner sit incongruously with the persistence of Galenic theory, superstition and blood-letting. Yet despite continued research into the period as a whole, most work has focussed on the metropolitan centres of England, Scotland and France, ignoring the huge range of national and regional practice. This collection aims to go some way to rectifying this situation, providing an exploration of the changes and developments in medicine as practised in Ireland and by Irish physicians studying and working abroad during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together research undertaken into the neglected area of Irish medical and social history across a variety of disciplines, including history of medicine, Colonial Latin American history, Irish, and French history, it builds upon ground-breaking work recently published by several of the contributors, thereby augmenting our understanding of the role of medicine within early modern Irish society and its broader scientific and intellectual networks. By addressing fundamental issues that reach beyond the medical institutions, the collection expands our understanding of Irish medicine and throws new light on medical practices and the broader cultural and social issues of early modern Ireland, Europe, and Latin America. Taking a variety of approaches and sources, ranging from the use of eplistolary exchange to the study of medical receipt books, legislative practice to belief in miracles, local professionalization to international networks, each essay offers a fascinating insight into a still largely neglected area. Furthermore, the collection argues for the importance of widening current research to consider the importance and impact of early Irish medical traditions, networks, and practices, and their interaction with related issues, such as politics, gender, economic demand, and religious belief.
Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674026827
Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.
Author : Eugenio F. Biagini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107095581
This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.
Author : Sarah Covington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1351242997
Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently, and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics, including social, cultural, and political history as well as folklore, medicine, archaeology, and digital humanities, all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps, graphs, tables, and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past, and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken, Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history.
Author : Laura Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108981771
Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on the experiences of Irish citizens through a wide range of archival sources and oral history, Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning, alongside the memories of activists who campaigned for and against legalisation. She highlights the influence of the Catholic Church's teachings and legal structures on Irish life showing how, for many, sex and contraception were obscured by shame. Yet, in spite of these constraints, many Irish women and men showed resistance in accessing contraceptive methods. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Greta Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 900433341X
Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Why Ireland’s pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book.
Author : J. R. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199592829
Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history: the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic.