Managing motherhood: Negotiating a maternity service for catholic mothers in Dublin, 1930-1954

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-277

  Earner Byrne, Lindsey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ante natal; Archbishop John Charles McQuaid; Catholic Social Service Conference; Gastro enteritis; Maternal and child welfare; Mortality; Mother and child controversy; Roman Catholic Church; Saint John's Ambulance Brigade

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747874945     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkl038     Document Type: Review

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