Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict, 1914 45 (eBook)

David Durnin is Irish Research Council Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, School of History, University College Dublin Ian Miller is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University

Introduction - David Durnin and Ian Miller
Part I: Health and disease on the domestic front
1. 'Every human life is a national importance': the impact of the First World War on attitudes to maternal and infant health - Fionnuala Walsh
2. The war and influenza: the impact of the First World War on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ulster - Patricia Marsh
3. Food, the Emergency and the lower-class Irish body, c.1939-45 - Bryce Evans
4. Alone among neutrals: Ireland's unique experience of tuberculosis during the Second World War - Anne Mac Lellan
Part II: Health and political unrest
5. War on our doorstep: Temple Street Hospital and the 1916 Rising - Barry Kennerk
6. Ireland's British Army doctors and the treatment of Irish nationalists, 1916-23 - David Durnin
7. The 'report of a nightmare': hallucinating conflict in the political and personal frontiers of Ulster during the IRA border campaign of 1920-22 - Fiachra Byrne
Part III: Institutions and medical personnel
8. From front to home and back again: geographical networks of auxiliary medical care in the First World War - Ronan Foley
9. Hope and experience: nurses from Belfast hospitals in the First World War - Seán Graffin
10. War work on the home front: the Central Sphagnum Depot for Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1915-19 - Clara Cullen
11. On the brink of universalism: the Emergency Hospital Services in Second World War Northern Ireland - Seán Lucey
12. Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922-45 - Steven O'Connor
13. Migrants, medics, matrons: exploring the spectrum of Irish immigrants in the wartime British health sector - Jennifer Redmond
Index