Seamus Metress (born 1933) is a professor of

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at the

University of Toledo The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a public research university in Toledo, Ohio. It is the northernmost campus of the University System of Ohio. The university also operates a Health Science campus, which includes the University of T ...

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. He has been teaching at the university level for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from

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in 1971. Also, he attended The

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, when it was an all-boys college. *Areas of Interest:

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and

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Medical Anthropology Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied ...

, Conflict in Northern Ireland *Research:

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and

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*Field Research projects in Northeast

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and the

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On the topic of the Great Famine of Ireland: *"These same apologists feel that there was nothing that any government could have done to ameliorate the situation. The poor British tried, but were simply overwhelmed by the logistics of the operation. In their view the starvation was the inevitable outcome of demography and the prevalent economic theory of the day." (From ''The Great Starvation and British Imperialism in Ireland.'')

Bibliography

Metress has published over 30 books and numerous articles. A partial list includes: *''Man in Ecological Perspective'' (Editor, 1972) *''Man in Evolutionary Perspective'' (Editor, with C. Loring Brace, 1973) *''Aging and Health: Biologic and Social Perspectives'' (with Cary S. Kart and Eileen K. Metress, 1978) *''Listen Irish People'' (published by Todd & Honeywell, Inc., 1979) *''The Irish-American Experience: A Guide to the Literature'' (1981) *''Euro-American Elderly: An Ethnic Bibliography'' (with Eileen K Metress, 1983) *''The hunger strike and the final struggle'' (1983) *''Nutrition, the Aged, and Society'' (with Cary S. Kart, 1984) *''A Regional Guide to Informational Sources on the Irish in the United States and Canada (Public Administration Series : Bibliography, P 1841) '' (1986) *''Aging, Health, and Society'' (with Cary Steven Kart and Eileen Metress, 1988) *''Human Aging and Chronic Disease'' (with Cary S. Kart and Eileen K. Metress, 1992) *''The American Irish and Irish Nationalism: A Sociohistorical Introduction'' (1995) *''The great starvation: An Irish holocaust'' (1996) *''Irish In North America A Regional Biography'' (with Donna Hardy-Johnston, 1999) *''Irish in Toledo: History and Memory'' (Editor, with Molly Schiever, 2005) *''Irish in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan Series)'' (with Eileen K. Metress, 2006)

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