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Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
244 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discoveries of Harvey and Jenner sit incongruously with the persistence of Galenic theory, superstition and blood-letting. Yet despite continued research into the period as a whole, most work has focussed on the metropolitan centres of England,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The role of graduate physicians in professionalising medical practice in Ireland, c.1619-1654, Mary Ann Lyons; Medical practice and Gaelic Ireland, Charlie Dillon; Medicine and miracles in the late 17th century: Bernard Connor's Evangelium Medici (1697), Liam Chambers; Medicine, religion and social mobility in 18th- and early 19th-century Ireland, Laurence Brockliss; Domestic medication and medical care in late early modern Ireland, James Kelly; Institutional medicine and state intervention in 18th-century Ireland, Andrew Sneddon; Gendered medical advice within Anglo-Irish correspondence: a case study of the Cary-Jurin letters, Wendy D. Churchill; The wider cultures of 18th-century Irish doctors, Toby Barnard; Advancing the medical career abroad: the case of Daniel O'Sullivan (1760-c.1797), Fiona Clark; Index.
Biography
Dr James Kelly is Head of the History Department at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University. Dr Fiona Clark is lecturer in Colonial Latin American Studies at the Queen's University Belfast.
'The history of medicine in eighteenth-century Ireland has received scant attention to date and this very welcome volume, edited by James Kelly and Fiona Clark, will no doubt help to focus the attention of researchers to the opportunities that exist for further study in that arena... This volume is a very welcome addition to the corpus of knowledge for those studying and researching the history of medicine in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland and certainly goes some of the way towards filling the void that has existed in that genre.' Irish Economic and Social History
