Growing pains :: childhood illness in Ireland 1750-1950 /

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 safeguar...

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Weitere Verfasser: Mac Lellan, Anne, Mauger, Alice
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung: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. The book also investigates medical management in the home, hospitals, reformatories, industrial schools, and workhouses - places where treatments ranged from the unorthodox to the experimental. Growing Pa.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xix, 254 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780716532057
0716532050
0716531607
9780716531609

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