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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Irish studies |
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Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"I was right glad to be rid of it" : dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- Women and tuberculosis in Ireland / Greta Jones -- Infant and child mortality in Dublin a century ago / Cormac âO Grâada -- Cure or custody : therapeutic philosophy at the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum / Oonagh Walsh -- Gender and criminal lunacy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Pauline Prior -- Between habitual drunkards and alcoholics : inebriate women and reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919 / Elizabeth Malcolm -- Managing midwifery in Dublin : practice and practitioners, 1700-1800 / Philomena Gorey -- Lady Dudley's district nursing scheme and the Congested Districts Board, 1903-1923 / Ciara Breathnach -- "The wages of sin is death" : Lock hospitals, venereal disease, and gender in prefamine Ireland / Laurence M. Geary -- "Sickness," gender, and national health insurance in Ireland, 1920s to 1940s / Mel Cousins -- "A perpetual nightmare" : women, fertility control, the Irish state, and the 1935 ban on contraceptives / Sandra McAvoy -- "A probable source of infection" : the limitations of venereal disease policy, 1943-1951 / Susannah Riordan -- Prophylactics and prejudice : venereal diseases in Northern Ireland during the Second World War / Leanne McCormick. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Ireland -- History.
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Medical care -- Ireland -- History.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ireland -- History.
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Ireland.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Preston, Margaret H. (Margaret Helen), editor.
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âO hâOgartaigh, Margaret, editor.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0815632711 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780815632719 paperback |
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9780815651963 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40060 hdl |
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