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Informationen zum Autor Laura Kelly is Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine at the University of Strathclyde Klappentext The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Debates surrounding women's admission to the medical profession2. The admission of women to the KQCPI and Irish medical schools 3. Becoming a medical student4. Women's experiences of Irish medical education 5. Careers and opportunities 6. Trends in the careers of Irish women doctors: emigration, marriage and the First World War 7. Medical lives: case-studies of five Irish women medical graduates 8. Conclusions Bibliography Appendix 1: Methodology Appendix 2: Biographical index Appendix 3: Additional tables Index
