The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Awarded a commendation prize for the 2021 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History Examines the role of the Irish medical profession during the First World War Uncovers the key concerns related to Irish medical involvement in the British Army in the First World War and highlights the broader significance of the conflict on the twentieth-century development of Irish healthcare Considers both the physical, mental and emotional impact of war on Irish doctors and nurses, as well as the effect of war on the development of Ireland’s domestic medical infrastructure
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David Durnin
Themen in »The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War«
Irish doctors and nurses Medical infrastructure Hospital network Twentieth-century medicine British Army medical services Irish nationalists Voluntary hospitals Emotional impact Trauma Hospital governance Political change