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Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class

Ciara Breathnach
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      Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language,detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hourof death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ciara Breathnach EAN: 9780198865780 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 588 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-06-23 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / History WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Ireland, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of medicine, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick where she has worked since 2005. She is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee (2018-2022) and has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural, and health history.
      Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language,detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hourof death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ciara Breathnach EAN: 9780198865780 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 588 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-06-23 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / History WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Ireland, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of medicine, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick where she has worked since 2005. She is currently an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee (2018-2022) and has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural, and health history.

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