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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kelly, Laura, 1986- author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012. ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Women physicians -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Women physicians -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century. Physicians, Women -- history. Education, Medical -- history. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Women physicians. Ireland. Ireland. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306519

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ISBN:	9781781704622 1781704627 9781784992057 1784992054 9780719088353 0719088356 9780719097409 0719097401
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Kelly, Laura, 1986- Irish women in Medicine, c.1880s-1920s. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780719088353

Table of 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.