Irish medical student culture and the performance of masculinity, c.1880-1930

Kelly, Laura (2016) Irish medical student culture and the performance of masculinity, c.1880-1930. History of Education. ISSN 0046-760X (https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2016.1181794)

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Abstract

In recent years, there have been valuable studies of medical education that have highlighted the importance of shared educational activities and the changing image of the student. Less attention has been paid to how masculine ideals were passed on to students and how educational and extra-curricular spheres became sites for the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity. Taking Irish medical schools as a case study and drawing on the student press, doctors’ memoirs and novels, this article will illustrate how rites of passage in medical education and social activities such as pranks and rugby became imbued with masculine tropes. In this way, the transformation of student to practitioner was often symbolised as the transformation of boy to man. The cultivation of the image of the medical student as a predominantly male individual became an important force in segregating men and women students and helped to preserve Irish medicine as a largely masculine sphere.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:56460
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    20 May 2016
    Published
    20 May 2016
    Published Online
    19 April 2016
    Accepted
    Notes:This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in History of Education on 20/05/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0046760X.2016.1181794
    Subjects:Education
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:20 May 2016 14:12
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:24
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56460
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