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Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
ISBN: 9781784992057
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Women physicians;

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.

Laura Kelly is Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine at the University of StrathclydeLaura Kelly is Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine at the University of Strathclyde