Greta Jones

Gebundenes Buch

'Captain of All These Men of Death'

The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland

Beschreibung

Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Why Ireland's pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book.

Autor

Greta Jones is Professor of History at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and has written on social Darwinism, eugenics and the relationship between science and politics. She has published articles on Irish medical education and the history of birth control in Ireland and recently co-edited Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland for cork University Press in 1999.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9789042010413
• ISBN-10: 904201041X
• Artikelnr.: 73372696