Daly, Ann
(2008)
The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland
1850 -1890.
PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the rise of modern Irish nationalism, sweeping
changes in land reform, the growth o f a new bourgeois class and the parallel decline
and collapse of eighteenth-century social structures. In short, it was a period that
crystallised the major social features of modem Ireland. R.V. Comerford asserts that
the preoccupation with the ‘mythic march of the nation’ has detracted from the
importance of the latter half of the nineteenth century.1 This study seeks to highlight
the significance of this time period in relation to laying the foundation stones for a
centralised and modern health-care system. This system in turn would ensure that the
figure of the doctor was a real presence in the lives of the public and, as the Dublin
Medical Press indicates, it bolstered the perception of the medical practitioner as
moral guardian of society in general.
This thesis is not a study of the medical profession in Ireland in the nineteenth
century. Though the structures and the hierarchical and elitist nature of the medical
establishment are explored, it is the doctors’ widening perception of their role in
society, so carefully documented in the Dublin Medical Press, that the study seeks to
highlight. That is not to say that the thesis is the study of the Dublin Medical Press
itself.2 Rather, the Dublin Medical Press is examined in this study as a framework of the developing moral role of the medical profession in Ireland in this period.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(PhD)
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| Keywords: |
Dublin Medical Press; medical authority;
1850 -1890; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > History |
| Item ID: |
5269 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
05 Aug 2014 15:11 |
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