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The Irish medical profession and the First World War /

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3030179591

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9783030179595

Erroneous ISBN

9783030179588

Title Proper

The Irish medical profession and the First World War /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

David Durnin.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

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©2019

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1 online resource

Series Title

Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Medical Organisations in the First World War; Chapter 2 Recruitment and Irish Medical Personnel, 1914-1918; Early Recruitment Campaigns; 1916 and the Decline in Enlistment; Conscription, Regulation and Dissension; Medical Recruitment in the Final Years of War; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Irish Medical Personnel: Motivations and Wartime Experiences, 1914-1918; Motivations; Social Profile; Religion and Education; The Experiences of Irish Medical Personnel in the First World War; 1916 Rising

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ConclusionChapter 4 The First World War and Hospitals in Ireland, 1914-1918; Casualty Evacuation System, 1914-1916; Irish Military Hospitals; Civilian Hospitals, 1914-1916; Specialist Hospitals; Civilian Hospitals, 1917-1918; Civilian Patients; Conclusion; Chapter 5 British Army Medical Personnel in Post-war Ireland, 1918-1925; Medical Demobilisation; The Return of Ireland's British Army Doctors, 1918-1925; Political Change in Ireland; Ex-British Army Doctors and Conflict in Ireland; Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918-1925

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Post-war Reconstruction of Military Medical CareCivilian Hospitals; The Impact of Conflict in Ireland on Hospitals, 1919-1923; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Conclusions; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index

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This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland's domestic medical infrastructure, especially its hospital network. The study explores the factors that encouraged Ireland's medical personnel to join the British Army medical services and uncovers how Irish hospital governors, in the face of increasing staff shortages and economic inflation, ensured that Ireland's voluntary hospital network survived the war. It also considers how Ireland's wartime doctors reintegrated into an Irish society that had experienced a profound shift in political opinion towards their involvement in the conflict and subsequently became embroiled in its own Civil War. In doing so, this book provides the first comprehensive study of the effect of the First World War on the medical profession in Ireland.

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Springer Nature

Stock Number

com.springer.onix.9783030179595

War-- Health aspects-- Ireland.

World War, 1914-1918-- Medical care-- Ireland.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.

Medical care.

Ireland.

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HIS-- 010020

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Durnin, David

Date of Transaction

20200823085947.0

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