Format:
1 Online-Ressource (I, 263 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004333413
Series Statement:
Clio medica 62
Content:
The Background -- The Tuberculosis Epidemic in Ireland: I -- The Tuberculosis Epidemic in Ireland: II -- The Public Health Movement 1890–1914 -- The Inter-War Years -- The Irish Sanatorium -- The 1940s -- The End of the Epidemic -- Bibliography.
Content:
Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Only in the first decade of the twentieth century did mortality from tuberculosis begin to fall and even then it remained higher in Ireland than in Britain and many other European nations throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Why Ireland’s pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book. Several controversies in the history of tuberculosis epidemics are addressed; the degree to which poverty and standard of living played a part in the tuberculosis decline, the role of public health, urbanisation and gender. Because tuberculosis was comparatively higher in Ireland it remained a much more potent political issue well into the twentieth century and the interaction between Ireland’s politics and the question of tuberculosis is discussed
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042010413
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9042010312
Additional Edition:
ISBN 904201041X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jones, Greta "Captain of all these men of death" Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2001 ISBN 9042010312
Additional Edition:
ISBN 904201041X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Medicine
Keywords:
Irland
;
Tuberkulose
;
Geschichte 1800-1950
;
Irland
;
Tuberkulose
;
Geschichte 1840-1950
DOI:
10.1163/9789004333413
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