Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class - Dublin City Coroner''s Court, 1876-1902

Zusatztext Ordinary Lives is a remarkable book that examines the medico-legal system of Dublin city coroners' inquests through the frameworks of blame, gender, and power. Informationen zum Autor Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick where she has worked since 2005. She is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee (2018-2022) and has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural, and health history. Klappentext Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court in the late nineteenth century, using a wealth of inquest data to understand the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives, revealing histories from both above and below. Zusammenfassung Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court in the late nineteenth century, using a wealth of inquest data to understand the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives, revealing histories from both above and below. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Dublin, the City Coroner's Court, and the Everyday 2: Sudden and Accidental Deaths in Domestic Settings 3: Deaths Outside: Public and Workplace Settings 4: Unnatural, Suspicious, and Violent Death Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Ciara Breathnach, Ciara (Associate Professor in History Breathnach, Breathnach Ciara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780198865780
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886578-0
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history