Mac Lellan, Anne (Author)
Mauger, Alice (Author)
Irish Academic Press
Physical Details: xix + 254 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidden. Spanning two centuries, Growing Pains is the first history of Ireland's unique social, cultural, and political responses to safeguarding childhood health and treating physically, psychologically, and socially vulnerable children. The book also investigates medical management in the home, hospitals, reformatories, industrial schools, and workhouses - places where treatments ranged from the unorthodox to the experimental. Growing Pains provides an account of infectious and non-infectious diseases, such as rickets, smallpox, tuberculosis, Spanish flu, epilepsy, and opthalmia, and it explores community and institutional responses to these illnesses across the centuries, as well as describing the medical pioneers who fought for better treatment and condition for Ireland's children. *** "This is the first collection to deal with the history of childhood illness in Ireland and is thus groundbreaking in its extent and concerns....The collection is coherent, is well edited, and adds considerably to our knowledge of Irish social and medical history. It is a very welcome addition to the history of children in Ireland and reveals how changing concepts of childhood illness informed attitudes to children, and shaped understandings of childhood itself.
...MoreReview LUDDY, MARIA (2015) Review of "Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 126-128).
Chapter Mauger, Alice; Mac Lellan, Anne (2013) Introduction: Contexts of Childhood Illness in Ireland. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Ashford, Gabriella (2013) Children's Smallpox and Inoculation Procedures in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Ward, Conor (2013) Children's Hospital Services in Victorian Dublin: The Role of the Institution for the Diseases of Children (1822--1886). In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Walke, Jean M. (2013) The Gentle Application of Mercury: Treatment of Children at the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin, in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Gorey, Philomena (2013) Childhood Ophthalmia in Irish Workhouses, 1849--1861. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Cooper, June (2013) Children and the Falling Sickness, Ireland, 1850--1904. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Miller, Ian (2013) Constructing “Moral Hospitals”: Improving Bodies and Minds in Irish Reformatories and Industrial Schools, c. 1851--1890. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Mac Lellan, Anne (2013) The Penny Test: Tuberculin Testing and Paediatric Practice in Ireland, 1900--1960. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Kelly, Laura (2013) Rickets and Irish Children: Dr. Ella Webb and the Early Work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925--1946. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Milne, Ida (2013) Through the Eyes of a Child: “Spanish” Influenza Remembered by Survivors. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
Chapter Kelly, Susan (2013) “And So to Bed”: Bone and Joint Tuberculosis in Children in Ireland, 1920--1950. In: Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland 1750--1950.
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