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Gender and Medicine in Ireland
1700–1950
Edited by Margaret Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
Paper $39.95s
| 978-0-8156-3271-9
| 2012
"Brought together in one volume, the
essays make a compelling case for reevaluating
the way we view categories of
sickness and health, as well as how we
view the interconnections of private and
public healthcare in Ireland."—Timothy G. McMahon, author of Grand
Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society,
1893–1910
"Nobody concerned with the reality, as distinct from the rhetoric, of life in Ireland over these centuries, above all for poorer women, can afford to ignore the issues raised in this wide-ranging, stimulating, and challenging collection."—J. J. Lee, New York University
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Margaret Preston is associate professor in the Department of History at Augustana
College in South Dakota. She is the author of Charitable Words: Women,
Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteeth-Century Dublin, and A
Journey of Faith, a Destination of Excellence: Avera McKennan Hospital’s First
Century of Caring. Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh teaches at Harvard University. She
is the author of numerous books, including Kathleen Lynn: Irishwoman, Patriot,
Doctor; Edward Hay, Historian of 1798: Catholic Politics in an Era of Wolfe
Tone and Daniel O’Connell; and Quiet Revolutionaries: Irish Women in Education,
Medicine, and Sport, 1861–1964.
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The essays in this collection examine the intersections between gender,
medicine, and conventional economic, political, and social histories in
Ireland between 1700 and 1950. Gathering many of the top voices in
Irish studies and the history of medicine, the editors cover a range of topics
including midwifery, mental health, alcoholism, and infant mortality.
Composed of thirteen chapters, the volume includes James Kelly’s
original analyses of eighteenth-century dental practice and midwifery,
placing the Irish experience in an international context. Greta Jones, in
an exploration of a disease that affected thousands in Ireland, explains
the reasons for higher tuberculosis mortality among women. Several essays
call attention to the attempted containment of disease, exploring the
role of asylums and the gendered attitudes toward insanity and reform.
Contributors highlight the often neglected impact of nurses and midwives,
occupations traditionally dominated by women.
Presenting a social history of Irish medicine, the disparate essays are
united by several common themes: the inherent danger of life in eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century Ireland, the specific brutality of women’s
lives at the time, and the heroics of several enlightened figures.
View other series books on Irish Studies
6 x 9, 344 pages, 19 tables, 10 figures, notes,
works cited, index
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