["Captain of all these men of death"] : : [the history of tuberculosis in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland] / / [by Greta Jones].
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 Eu...
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Superior document: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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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. |
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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.