Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914-45. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Durnin, Ian Miller.
• Editors: Durnin, David; Miller, Ian, 1980-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, maps (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.1094150904; Medical care -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1949
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526108234; 9781526108227
• Related ISBNs: 9780719097850
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