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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Ian, 1980- editor.

Durnin, David, editor.

Series:

Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War (1914-1918).

Medical care--Ireland--History--20th century.

Medical care.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923--Medical care--Congresses.

Ireland--History--War of Independence, 1919-1921--Medical care--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : maps (black and white); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventions in Irish health matters. The contributors put forward the case that warfare and political unrest profoundly shaped Irish experiences of medicine and health, and that Irish political, social and economic contexts added unique contours to those experiences not evident in other countries. In pursuing these themes, the authors offer an original and focused intervention into a central, but so far unexplored, area of Irish medical history.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 MacLellan

pt. 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

pt. 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 / Sean 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 / Sean 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.

Notes:

"This volume owes its origin to a workshop held in University College Dublin"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record and e-Publication, viewed on May 31, 2018.

ISBN:

9781526108234

1526108232

9781526120977

1526120976

9781526108227

1526108224

OCLC:

989707358