A remarkable story of a personal vision and sense of calling this text provides an insight into the establishment of the hospice movement and its development world-wide.

A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.

A collection of essays on the social history of legal medicine including case studies on infanticide, abortion, coroners' inquests and criminal insanity.

From the nation that elected Barack Obama in the flames of economic disaster comes the first novel of the New Era, The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman.

Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative account of the history of the traditional system of training ...

This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960.