Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45

Front matter
Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Health and disease on the domestic front
‘Every human life is a national importance’: the impact of the First World War on attitudes to maternal and infant health
The war and influenza: the impact of the First World War on the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Ulster
Food, the Emergency and the lower-class Irish body, c.1939–45
Alone among neutrals: Ireland’s unique experience of tuberculosis during the Second World War
Part II: Health and political unrest
War on our doorstep: Temple Street Hospital and the 1916 Rising
Ireland’s British Army doctors and the treatment of Irish nationalists, 1916–23
The ‘report of a nightmare’: hallucinating conflict in the political and personal frontiers of Ulster during the IRA border campaign of 1920–22
Part III: Institutions and medical personnel
From front to home and back again: geographical networks of auxiliary medical care in the First World War
Hope and experience: nurses from Belfast hospitals in the First World War
War work on the home front: the Central Sphagnum Depot for Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1915–19
On the brink of universalism: the Emergency Hospital Services in Second World War Northern Ireland
Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922–45
Migrants, medics, matrons: exploring the spectrum of Irish immigrants in the wartime British health sector
Index