Medicine Disease State Ireland (PB

by Greta Jones

This book represents a pioneering attempt to open up a previously neglected area of Irish social history. It covers the impact of disease on Irish society, alternative healing, the growth of the medical institutions and of the professions of medicine and nursing. It also explores the relationship between politics and medicine. Four of the essays deal in turn with typhus, smallpox, tuberculosis and mental illness. There are histories of the founding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859182305
• ISBN13: 9781859182307
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 278 Pages