Annual report of the House of Recovery or fever hospital of the City of Cork, for the year 1826
Author: House of Recovery (CORK)
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: House of Recovery (CORK)
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Laurence M. Geary
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the Famine itself caused around one million deaths from starvation and disease. This was a period of great change in medical and charitable services. In the eighteenth century the sick had come to be regarded as the deserving poor, therefore having a better claim to public assistance than those whose poverty was the result of their own dissipation, idleness or vice. A network of charities evolved in Ireland to provide free medical aid to the sick poor. The first voluntary hospital in Dublin opened in 1718 and Geary traces the establishment and development of voluntary hospitals and county infirmaries throughout the country.These had a strong Anglican ethos and bias, but after Catholic emancipation in 1829 the nepotism, sectarianism and divisive politics that were rife in these organisations came under increasing scrutiny. Medical practitioners saw considerable progress in the development of a regulated profession. Geary describes developments in policy making and legislation, culminating in the 1851 Medical Charities Act, which he describes as part of a process that characterised the century and more under review in this book: the unrelenting pressure on philanthropy and private medical charity and the inexorable shift from voluntarism to an embryonic system of state medicine.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 1048
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: E Margaret Crawford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-01
Total Pages: 2390
ISBN-13: 1000173348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection contains Five volumes of reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" and similar publications.