Items related to Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland 1650-1940
This book represents a pioneering attempt to open up a previously neglected area of Irish social history. It covers the impact of disease on Irish society, alternative healing, the growth of the medical institutions and of the professions of medicine and nursing. It also explores the relationship between politics and medicine.
Four of the essays deal in turn with typhus, smallpox, tuberculosis and mental illness. There are histories of the founding of Irish medical and learned scientific societies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the role of William Wilde in the Dublin School of Medicine in the early nineteenth century, and the growth of medical schools. The relationship between religion and medicine in Ireland is discussed in chapters on the influence of female religious orders in nursing, the church, the state and hospitals in inter-war Ireland. The part played by the state in the development of poor law services in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is examined paying particular attention to the attempt made by the newly formed Irish state after 1922 to regulate sexuality. The physical and architectural environment of the public lunatic asylum created in early nineteenth-century Ireland is described.
This collection of essays by established scholars in the field is informed by recent developments in the social history of medicine.
Four of the essays deal in turn with typhus, smallpox, tuberculosis and mental illness. There are histories of the founding of Irish medical and learned scientific societies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the role of William Wilde in the Dublin School of Medicine in the early nineteenth century, and the growth of medical schools. The relationship between religion and medicine in Ireland is discussed in chapters on the influence of female religious orders in nursing, the church, the state and hospitals in inter-war Ireland. The part played by the state in the development of poor law services in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is examined paying particular attention to the attempt made by the newly formed Irish state after 1922 to regulate sexuality. The physical and architectural environment of the public lunatic asylum created in early nineteenth-century Ireland is described.
This collection of essays by established scholars in the field is informed by recent developments in the social history of medicine.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Greta Jones is Professor of History at the University of Ulster, at Jordanstown. She has published extensively on the history of medicine.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherCork University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1859181104
- ISBN 13 9781859181102
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
- EditorJones Greta, Malcolm Elizabeth
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
Medicine, disease and the state in Ireland, 1650 - 1940 / edited by Greta Jones and Elizabeth Malcolm
Published by
Cork: Cork Univ. Press
(1999)
ISBN 10: 1859181104
ISBN 13: 9781859181102
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 278 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: 17th-20th centuries. Medicine Ireland History. Medical policy Ireland History. Public health Ireland History. Social medicine Ireland History. National health services Ireland History. Medicine History 17th century. Medicine History 18th century. Medicine History 19th century. Medicine History 20th century. Disease history. Public Health history. Genre: History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 321229
Buy Used
US$ 137.95
Convert currency
Seller Image
Medicine, disease and the state in Ireland, 1650 - 1940 / edited by Greta Jones and Elizabeth Malcolm
Published by
Cork: Cork Univ. Press
(1999)
ISBN 10: 1859181104
ISBN 13: 9781859181102
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 278 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: 17th-20th centuries. Medicine Ireland History. Medical policy Ireland History. Public health Ireland History. Social medicine Ireland History. National health services Ireland History. Medicine History 17th century. Medicine History 18th century. Medicine History 19th century. Medicine History 20th century. Disease history. Public Health history. Genre: History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 321229
Buy Used
US$ 160.00
Convert currency