British & Irish history
Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
Edited by David Durnin, Ian Miller
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This book 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 book offers an original and focused intervention into a central, but so far unexplored, area of Irish medical history.
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This volume investigates Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, War of Independence and 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 pose a number of core questions: what made Irish medical and health experiences unique? Did the financial exigencies of war impact detrimentally on Irish healthcare provision? How were the psychological and emotional responses to war managed in Ireland? Did Ireland witness unique disease trends? How did Irish medical communities and volunteers partake in international war efforts? In what ways did wartime circumstances encourage divergence in healthcare provision in Ireland and Northern Ireland? And, finally, what can be learnt by comparing Irish medical and health experiences in both wars? Ultimately, Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914-45 presents two key findings. Firstly, that twentieth-century warfare and political unrest profoundly shaped Irish experiences of medicine and health. Secondly, that Irish political, social and economic contexts added unique contours to those experiences not evident in other countries. In pursuing these ideas, the volume offers an original and focused intervention into a central - but previously unexplored - theme in Irish medical history.
Author Biography
David Durnin is Irish Research Council Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, School of History, University College Dublin Ian Miller is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date October 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719097850
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 80 GBP
- Pages240
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration10 tables, 3 maps
- Biblio NotesIntroduction - 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
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