Growing pains
Subtitle: childhood Illness in Ireland 1750-1950
By: editors, Anne Mac Lellan, Alice Mauger
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780716531609; 9780716531739; 9780716532057
Subjects: Child health services; History; Medical care; Medical policy; Children; Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan; title: Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford; title: Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin: the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward; title: The gentle application of mercury: treatment of children at the Westmoreland lock hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker; title: Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey; title: Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper; title: Constructing 'moral hospitals': improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller; title: The penny test: tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan; title: Rickets and Irish children: Dr. Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly; title: Through the eyes of a child: 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne; title: 'And so to bed': bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly.