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Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s : origins, education and careers / Laura Kelly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012Copyright date: �2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781704622
  • 1781704627
  • 9781784992057
  • 1784992054
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Irish women in Medicine, c.1880s-1920s.DDC classification:
  • 610.82 23
LOC classification:
  • R692 .K45 2012
NLM classification:
  • 2013 F-624
  • WZ 80.5.W5
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Debates surrounding women's admission to the medical profession -- The admission of women to the KQCPI and Irish medical schools -- Becoming a medical student -- Women's experiences of Irish medical education -- Careers and opportunities -- Trends in the careers of Irish women doctors: emigration, marriage and the First World War -- Medical lives: case studies of five Irish women medical graduates -- Conclusions.
Summary: The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.

Introduction -- Debates surrounding women's admission to the medical profession -- The admission of women to the KQCPI and Irish medical schools -- Becoming a medical student -- Women's experiences of Irish medical education -- Careers and opportunities -- Trends in the careers of Irish women doctors: emigration, marriage and the First World War -- Medical lives: case studies of five Irish women medical graduates -- Conclusions.

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The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers.

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