["Captain of all these men of death"] : : [the history of tuberculosis in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland] / / [by Greta Jones].

• Superior document: Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Greta,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2001]
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome series in the history of medicine.; Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (i, 263 pages) :; illustrations.

Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Only in the first decade of the twentieth century did mortality from tuberculosis begin to fall and even then it remained higher in Ireland than in Britain and many other European nations throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Why Ireland’s pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book. Several controversies in the history of tuberculosis epidemics are addressed; the degree to which poverty and standard of living played a part in the tuberculosis decline, the role of public health, urbanisation and gender. Because tuberculosis was comparatively higher in Ireland it remained a much more potent political issue well into the twentieth century and the interaction between Ireland’s politics and the question of tuberculosis is discussed.

Table of Contents

The Background -- The Tuberculosis Epidemic in Ireland: I -- The Tuberculosis Epidemic in Ireland: II -- The Public Health Movement 1890–1914 -- The Inter-War Years -- The Irish Sanatorium -- The 1940s -- The End of the Epidemic -- Bibliography.