At the beginning of the 20th century, Ireland was one of the very few developed countries to be experiencing a rise in tuberculosis mortality, which was rapidly declining in ...

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

Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Why Ireland's pattern of tuberculosis mortality ...

Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth ...

Based upon archival material newly available to researchers, this study follows the history of the eugenics movement from its roots in late 19th-century social reform to its ...

Though controversial in subject, By Their Fruits presents an important examination of not only the history of abortion legislation but also the history and impact of the ...