Growing pains : childhood Illness in Ireland 1750-1950 / editors, Anne Mac Lellan, Alice Mauger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mac Lellan, Anne.

Mauger, Alice

Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child health services--Ireland--History.

Child health services.

Medical care--Ireland--History.

Medical care.

Medical policy--Ireland--History.

Medical policy.

Children--Diseases--Ireland.

Children.

Children--Diseases.

History.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xix, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan

Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford

Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin: the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward

The gentle application of mercury: treatment of children at the Westmoreland lock hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker

Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey

Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper

Constructing 'moral hospitals': improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller

The penny test: tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan

Rickets and Irish children: Dr. Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly

Through the eyes of a child: 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne

'And so to bed': bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780716531609

0716531607

OCLC:

828056890

Publisher Number:

99954262172