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Title Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850 : voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives / edited by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman.

Publication Info. London : Institute of Historical Research, [2014]

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Note "This collection of essays is based on two workshops held in Dublin. The first was held in 2011 in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History in Trinity College Dublin and the second in 2012 in the Centre for the History of Medicine, University College Dublin."--Page vii
"Published by University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of Historical Research"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Donnacha Seán Lucey, Virginia Crossman -- I. Historiographical directions: 'Voluntarism' in English health and welfare : visions of history / Martin Gorsky. Healthcare systems in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : the national, international and sub-national contexts / John Stewart -- II. Voluntary hospital provision: Paying for health : comparative perspectives on patient payment and contributions for hospital provision in Ireland / Donnacha Seán Lucey, George Campbell Gosling. 'Why have a Catholic hospital at all?' : the Mater Infirmorum Hospital Belfast and the state, 1883-1972 / Peter Martin. Cottage hospitals and communities in rural East Devon, 1919-1939 / Julia Neville -- III. Healthcare and the mixed economy: The mixed economy of care in the South Wales coalfield, c.1850-1950 / Steven Thompson. ' ... it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here' : religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904 / Ciara Breathnach. To 'solve the darkest social problems of our time' : the Church of Scotland's entry into the British matrix of health and welfare provision c.1880-1914 / Janet Greenlees -- IV. Public health, voluntarism and local government: Feverish activity : Dublin City Council and the smallpox outbreak of 1902-3 / Ciarán Wallace. Influenza : the Irish Local Government Board's last great crisis / Ida Milne. The roots of regionalism : municipal medicine from the Local Government Board to the Dawson report / Sally Sheard.
Summary " ... Explores developments in health and social care in Ireland and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central objectives are to highlight the role of voluntarism in healthcare, to examine healthcare in local and regional contexts, and to provide comparative perspectives."--Back cover
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Subject Medical care -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Medical care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medical care -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Medical care -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Ireland.
Health Services -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospitals, Voluntary -- history
Religion and Medicine
Social Welfare -- history
Ireland
United Kingdom
Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Médecine -- Aspect religieux.
Irlande.
Soins médicaux -- Irlande -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Soins médicaux -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Soins médicaux -- Irlande -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Soins médicaux -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Medical care
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Ireland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvXDFC7pX6tHkq6DX68C
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Author Lucey, Donnacha Seán, editor.
Crossman, Virginia, editor.
Added Title Health care in Ireland and Britain from 1850
Other Form: Print version: Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850. London : Institute of Historical Research, [2014] 9781909646025 (OCoLC)909159892
ISBN 9781909646650 (electronic bk.)
1909646652 (electronic bk.)
9781909646025
1909646024

 
    
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