The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War

• Main Author: Durnin, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Imperialism.; Medicine-History.; Military history.; Social history.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Medicine.; History of Military.; Social History.

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 s...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Recruitment and Irish Medical Personnel, 1914-18
• 3 Irish Medical Personnel: Motivations and Wartime Experiences, 1914-18
• 4 The First World War and Hospitals in Ireland, 1914-18
• 5 British Army Medical Personnel in Post-War Ireland, 1918-25
• 6 The Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918-25
• 7 Conclusions
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