Research Catalog

Title

Growing pains : childhood Illness in Ireland 1750-1950 / editors, Anne Mac Lellan, Alice Mauger.

Publication

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mac Lellan, Anne
• Mauger, Alice

Description

xix, 254 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidden. Spanning two centuries, Growing Pains is the first history of Ireland's unique social, cultural and political responses to safeguarding childhood health and treating physically, psychologically and socially vulnerable children. It also investigates medical management in the home, hospitals, reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses - places where treatments ranged from the unorthodox to the experimental. Growing Pains provides an account of infectious and non-infectious diseases such as rickets, smallpox, tuberculosis, Spanish flu, epilepsy and opthalmia, and explores community and institutional responses to these illnesses across the centuries, as well as describing the medical pioneers who fought for better treatment and condition for Ireland's children. Pubisher's note.

Subject

• 1700-talet
• 1800-talet
• 1900-talet
• Pediatrics
• History, Modern 1601-
• Health Policy
• Delivery of Health Care
• Child
• Child Welfare
• Child health services > Ireland > History
• Medical care > Ireland > History
• Medical policy > Ireland > History
• Children > Diseases > Ireland
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600
• Ireland

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan -- Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford -- Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin: the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward -- The gentle application of mercury: treatment of children at the Westmoreland lock hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker -- Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey -- Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper -- Constructing 'moral hospitals': improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller -- The penny test: tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan -- Rickets and Irish children: Dr. Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly -- Through the eyes of a child: 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne -- 'And so to bed': bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly.

ISBN

• 9780716531609
• 0716531607

OCLC

• 828056890
• SCSB-12424874

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library