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Informationen zum Autor Ian Miller is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Ulster Klappentext A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars. Zusammenfassung A wide ranging volume on medical history! that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - 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 Walsh2. The war and influenza: the impact of the First World War on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ulster - Patricia Marsh3. Food, the Emergency and the lower-class Irish body, c.1939-45 - Bryce Evans4. 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 Kennerk6. Ireland's British Army doctors and the treatment of Irish nationalists, 1916-23 - David Durnin7. 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 Foley9. Hope and experience: nurses from Belfast hospitals in the First World War - Seán Graffin10. War work on the home front: the Central Sphagnum Depot for Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1915-19 - Clara Cullen11. On the brink of universalism: the Emergency Hospital Services in Second World War Northern Ireland - Seán Lucey12. Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922-45 - Steven O'Connor13. Migrants, medics, matrons: exploring the spectrum of Irish immigrants in the wartime British health sector - Jennifer RedmondIndex...
